当他小的时候，他就到国外去了。

When he was young, he went abroad.

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当他小的时候就没了父亲。

When he was young, he was free of his father.

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当他小的时候，他总是尝试一些新的想法。

When he was a child, he was always trying out new ideas.

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He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

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