The young boy left his home to find work.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

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

The one, the cabin boy, he had no family, he had no dependents, these other three had families back home in England; they had dependents; they had wives and children.

一方就是派克，没有家庭，也没有亲人，而另外那三个人在英国有自己的家庭;,有亲人，他们有妻儿。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

That's you have to learn like this. Go home,boy."

VOA: special.2010.06.26

This 17-year-old boy says he spends long days carrying water back to his family's home.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01