当时人们认为心智健全的孩子都渴望长大，也认识到童年比现在社会一般允许的要结束得早得多。

It assumed that sane children want to grow up and recognized that childhood ends much earlier than modern society typically allows.

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像我这样的家庭在增加——现在，近十分之一英国孩子生活在混血家庭。这个数字比我童年时高六倍。

Families like mine are on the rise - nearly one in 10 British children now lives in a mixed-race family, a figure that is six times higher than it was when I was a child.

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