When he was a small child, his family was very poor.

当他还是小孩子的时候，家就很贫穷。

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Lincoln's mother a lot of books for him his family was very poor.

虽然林肯家很穷，但是他母亲仍然给他买了很多书。

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His family was very poor. When Lincoln was a boy, he worked on his family's farm.

他家里非常穷，当林肯还是个小男孩时，他就在自家的农场里干活。

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His family was very poor.

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So his was a progression out of a very poor, Southern childhood, from a black family led by a single mother, to the circles in which Gertrude Stein moved in Paris.

从他在南方的贫穷的童年,黑人家庭的来历，单亲妈妈的抚养，到他一步步脱离这样背景,迈向葛楚德，史坦迁往巴黎后的圈子。

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Anthony Power was born to a very poor family in Southern Ireland, his son said, and when he first married his wife in 1959 they lived in a caravan as they could not afford a house.

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