Many are about his life growing up in the state of New Jersey, where he was born in nineteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

It had a first part called "Southern Night" and a second part called "The Horror and the Glory." "Southern Night" was about his experience growing up in Mississippi.

第一部分是，“南方的夜”,第二部分是，“恐怖与荣誉”,“南方的夜”写他在密西西比成长的经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But of course this is a poor, black child growing up in the South, and his expectations, what his mind can imagine, is always going to be greater than what the world can deliver.

但要记得，这个黑人穷孩子是在南方长大的，他的期待，他想象的东西，总好过现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Even though growing up in the United States Americanized him, he says his family retains its Honduran heritage.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Trouble the Water; a novel about growing up in the South by Melvin Dixon, a great novel that gets little attention, and his lifelong struggle to understand just how Southern he was in New York.

再如梅尔文·迪克逊的《水的困扰》,是一本关于南方的成长经历的小说,一本伟大却不出名的小说,他终其一生都在试图理解,为何他在纽约那么像个南方人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

One said the Jackson family was regarded as royalty when she was growing up, but the singer's many plastic surgeries made some believe he hoped to obscure his black identity.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

His parents were very much absent from his growing-up life.

在他的成长过程中，他的父母并没有参与太多。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

During that time, while on tour in Europe and Southeast Asia, he decided to stray from his usual regimen of smooth jazz and focus on the jazz classics he heard growing up.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12