A stranger was before him—a boy a shade larger than himself.

他面前出现了一个陌生人——一个比他自己大一点的男孩。

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Is it a boy or a girl?

是个男孩还是女孩？

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Benedict had been a wild boy and a quarrelsome young man.

本尼迪克特曾是个狂野的男孩，一个好争吵的年轻男子。

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As a boy,Carl said he knew if it was time to go to school by the sound of a train.

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So he becomes a boy after he's separated from his mother.

所以离开母亲之后他才成为一个男孩。

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There was a boy in that class who was a great hacker and I know he can hack things very quickly.

班上有个男孩，是一个很厉害的黑客，可以迅速地入侵系统。

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That's when, upon simple inspection, a doctor or a nurse pronounces a baby a boy or a girl.

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"At one point I tried to take a picture of a young boy attacking a camera, " Sussman wrote.

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And as a young boy I was -- as a young boy I was coming to a different world.

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