Although the boy was very surprised at this, he had no choice but to carry out this task.

尽管男孩对此感到非常惊讶，但他别无选择，只能完成这项任务。

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Minh's mother had thrown him out of the house at the age of 10, and at the end of each day his friend, Thi, would carry the stricken boy on his back to an alleyway where they slept.

明的妈妈在他十岁时把他扔出家门。他的朋友阮，每天结束时都把这个受伤的男孩背到他们睡觉的胡同。

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Here he lived too, in skipper-like state, all alone with his nephew Walter: a boy of fourteen who looked quite enough like a midshipman, to carry out the prevailing idea.

他像小商船的船长一样，和他的外甥沃尔特住在这里，没有别的人。沃尔特是一位十四岁的男孩子，他那副神态活像是一位海军军官候补生，这也进一步加深了上述总的印象。

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