That evening, as he walked by the docks, a slip of a boy came up and asked where he was stabling his horse.

那天晚上，他正走在码头边，一个瘦得像纸片的男孩走上前来，问他把马放在哪个马厩。

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In that Club — more of a mausoleum, really — they'd look on a man in his forties as a mere slip of a boy.

那家俱乐部——其实更像一座陵墓——他们将四十多岁的男子只不过看做一个小男孩而已。

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