A young boy named Max runs away from his mother and sails to an island full of frightening-looking creatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

So far so--And so this is not crazy; a little boy falling in love with his mother.

到目前为止，一切尚算正常;,小男孩爱上了他的母亲。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That has a typical Bildungsroman structure, the structure of a story about a boy who goes out from his home and sort of becomes a man through his travels.

这里具备一个典型成长小说的框架，故事结构讲的是,一个背井离乡的男孩,在旅途中长大成人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As a young boy, he helped his father, who worked on a sugar farm and also managed a store that sold food.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

A boy who's bullied by his father may hate his father and want to hurt him but since this would--this is very shameful and difficult.

屈于父亲权威下的男孩,可能会憎恨他的父亲，想要伤害父亲,但这个想法是可耻的，也是难以实现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

His family experienced the terrible reality of hatred and discrimination when he was a young boy.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Dudley offered a prayer, he told the boy his time had come, and he killed him with a pen knife, stabbing him in the jugular vein.

达德利为派克做了祷告，并告诉派克他的时辰到了，然后就用小刀割破他的颈静脉杀死了他。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Participants in programs have included a twelve-year-old boy and a man in his eighties.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

And I have a friend who's a Parisian lawyer who works in Africa a lot, and when he was a little boy the Germans came to get his father who was a Greek Jew, and he was taken away and killed, of course.

我有个朋友,是在巴黎的律师总去非洲工作,他小的时候,德国人来抓他父亲因为他是希腊犹太人,他被抓走后遇害

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Faith Lapidus has more. As a boy,Ben Harper spent a lot of time at his grandparents' record store called The Folk Music Center and Museum in California.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

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“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It came July 28 in 2000, when a young boy died in a gunshot accident and his parents decided to donate his organs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26