He's a common cottage boy off the moor!

他不过是住在荒野里的一个普通的乡下孩子！

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The boy had the presence of mind to turn off the gas.

那男孩子镇定地关掉了煤气。

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A small boy tumbled off the porch.

一个小男孩从门廊上摔了下去。

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In a second he got it going forward and drove off crookedly past the man and boy still standing there watching.

他迅速地将车向前开动,歪歪扭扭地经过,仍然在一旁站立的男人和男孩。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When the car was ready, the man and the boy stood by to watch him drive it off."

当车准备就绪，站在一旁的男人和男孩“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

After I dropped the boy off, the weather cleared a little, and the last ten miles took next to no time.

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Poole told her that the boy fell off of the kitchen table and apologised for not watching him more closely.

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The poster boy for off-the-rails, disastrous optimism is Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who met with Hitler in 1938 and handed him a big chunk of Czechoslovakia in exchange for the Fuhrer's word.

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