He was exactly the kind of boy he had always wanted to be.

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So there is a kind of grammar of race that this boy is learning while he experiences language in all these other more visceral, family-oriented ways.

更直接地谈下去会有危险时,这男孩在学习地区或者种族语言,特有的表达方式，同时他的家庭影响也塑造着他的语言。

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Trumpet, yeah, and he had this wonderful rich sound but boy, it was a big, huge sound, kind of the ultimate in-your-face trumpet player.

小号,是的,而且他让这声音听起来美妙而饱满,但是孩子们,这可是很大很响的声音,好像在你眼前演奏的一样

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Honor to so many of us sounds quaint, like an honor code or the Boy Scouts' code or something like that or something primitive, some kind of primitive ethic which we therefore don't really understand.

荣誉，对我们中大多数而言，听起来都会很奇怪，这就像是在说荣誉代码,童子军守则或一些类似的东西一样，亦或是一些非常原始的理论,以致于我们根本不知道这是在说什么。

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