The Joplins were poor, so Scott's mother paid for the weekly lessons with food.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It is about two poor children who must buy milk for their sick mother.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Huck is a poor child, without a mother or home.

VOA: special.2010.03.21