霍巴特威廉史密斯学院 Hobart and William Smith Col
1769年，在英格兰牛津郡的一个小镇上，一个名字平平无奇的叫威廉·史密斯的小孩出生在一个贫穷的乡村铁匠家庭。
In 1769 in a little town in Oxfordshire, England, a child with the very ordinary name of William Smith was born into the poor family of a village blacksmith.
当威廉·史密斯长大一些，他用自己的一点积蓄买了一些书，自学测量学，并且他18岁时在当地教区做了一名测量师的学徒。
When he grew older, William Smith taught himself surveying from books he bought with his small savings, and at the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to a surveyor of the local parish.
因此，在1836年出版的一本关于他的南美之旅的书中，威廉·史密斯这样抱怨他的助手经常“遗弃”他的行为：“没有他们，我就不可能继续前进。”
In an account of his journey across South America, published in 1836, William Smyth thus complained of frequent "desertion" by his helpers: "Without them it was impossible to get on".
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