我想到了那句从一位塞内卡男孩男孩那里学到的话，他说，”那些明明拥有很多却贪婪的人比拥有很少的人更加贫穷。
And I thought back to that wonderful phrase I had learned as a boy from Seneca, in which he says, "That man is poor not who has little but who hankers after more."
教师可以用 “以男孩为中心”的方法，鼓励男孩享受阅读和写作。比如，利用吸引他们的主题和人物。
Teachers could encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with "boy-focused" approaches such as themes and characters that appeal to them.
一个男孩用下面装着轮子的小箱子推着另一个男孩。
One of the boys was pushing the other along in a little box on wheels.
她咆哮着，扑向那个男孩，男孩轻快地从窗户跳了出去。
She growled and sprang at the boy, who leapt lightly through the window.
那位女士又走到男孩身边，男孩仍然害怕得发抖。
The lady walked over to the boy again, who was still quivering with fear.
女孩对钢琴和小提琴的评价都比男孩高，而男孩更喜欢鼓和喇叭。
The piano and the violin were both ranked more favorably by girls than by boys, while boys prefer the drums and trumpets.
你知道的，我是个男孩子，男孩子们都怕吃药，比生了病还怕。
I'm a boy, you see, and all boys hate medicine more than they do sickness.
一些男孩在踢球，其他的男孩在读书。
在世界各地的学校里，女孩在“语言科目”上往往比男孩更好，而男孩在数学和物理上表现更好。
In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at "language subjects" and boys better at maths and physics.
海蒂向男孩打了个招呼，男孩站住了，一动不动地盯着她。
Heidi greeted the boy, who stopped, rooted to the spot, staring at her.
这个大男孩不断地打那个小男孩。
他闷闷不乐地走进校园，希望她是个男孩，想象着如果她是个男孩，他会怎样痛打她。
He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were.
男孩把锅给了他们，然后他们给了男孩一件新外套。
The boy gave his pot to them, and they gave the boy a new coat.
然而，男孩比女孩更倾向于玩复杂的谜题，而且男孩的父母在玩谜题时比女孩的父母提供更多的空间语言，也更活跃。
However, boys tended to play with more complex puzzles than girls, and the parents of boys provided more spatial language and were more active during puzzle play than parents of girls.
当然，男孩会受到更多的虐待，比如殴打，因为父母的期望又很高，而且男孩往往比女孩更有活力，更难控制。
Boys, of course, attract more abuse, such as beating, because, once again, parental expectations are high, and boys tend to be more energetic and difficult to control than girls.
一个男孩从后面推了他一下，要不是另一个男孩抓住他，他还会再掉下去的。
A boy pushed him from behind, and he would have fallen again if another had not caught him.
有一天，女孩问男孩：ABCDEFG是什么意思？男孩回答：一个男孩能为女孩做一切。
One day, the girl asked the boy: what does ABCDEFG mean? The boy replied: A boy can do everything for girl.
这个班有50个学生，其中五分之三是男孩，所以男孩的人数是30。
There are fifty students in this class, three fifths of them are boys, so the number of the boys is 30.
他们感到很高兴，并给那个男孩取名为波波纳罗，别名橘子男孩。
They felt very happy and named the boy Bobonaro, or Orange Boy.
“大卫是一个非常坏的男孩，又暴躁又懒惰，或许是世界上最坏的男孩，”他生气地说。
"David is a very bad boy, violent and lazy, maybe the worst boy in the world," he said angrily.
四十天没钓到一条鱼，男孩的父母告诉他，老人现在是“撒劳”了，这是最倒霉的倒霉事。于是男孩和另一条船一起去了，这条船在第一个星期就钓到了三条好鱼。
After forty days without a fish, the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone with another boat which caught three good fish the first week.
如果你去任何一家玩具店购物，都能清楚地看到男孩和女孩的游戏和玩具截然不同：商店的一侧有很多粉红色的玩具，为女孩提供；而深色的汽车、枪支和士兵玩具则是为男孩准备的。
If you go shopping in any toy store, you can see clearly the different games and toys for boys and girls: there are a lot of pink toys on one side of the store for girls; and dark-colored cars, guns, and soldiers for boys.
恶棍威胁说要揍那男孩,男孩便退缩到一个角落里。
The boy shrank into a corner when the bully threatened to beat him.
男孩子毕竟是男孩子。
无论何时裁缝责怪男孩什么，男孩从不回嘴。
Whenever the tailor scolded the boy, the boy never talked back.
然而我们的故事开始于一个启蒙度更高的时代，男孩有男孩的样子，国家也对此表示赞同。
Our story, however, begins in a more enlightened age, when boys were being boys, and the state approved of it.
“女孩打扮成男孩，男孩装成女孩。”我说。
“女孩打扮成男孩，男孩装成女孩。”我说。
教师们惩罚男孩，驱使男孩进行一些更女性化的游戏，而不是教他们如何有责任感地玩他们喜欢的玩具。
Boys are punished and urged to conform to a more feminine style of play instead of being taught how to play responsibly with their preferred toys.
男孩子就是男孩子嘛！
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