I'm not sure if it was because he was getting too comfortable or because his adolescent skinny boy metabolism was just growing into middle-aged fat man metabolism.

我不能肯定这是因为他过得太舒适了，还是因为他那种青少年时期的小瘦子的新陈代谢系统直接过渡到了中年胖男人的新陈代谢系统。

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"A man got out and asked my neighbour whether our baby was a boy or girl," said Mr Wu, handing over a composite image of the man that the villagers had drawn up.

“一个男子下了车，问我家的邻居我的孩子是男孩还是女孩”伍先生递过来一张根据邻居回忆合成的人像说。

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He was not a large man or a strong one: lung trouble had disrupted his studies as a boy, and he had been advised at 26 to give up the monastic life for his health's sake.

他长得并不高大，也不强壮：还是个孩子的时候，肺病就中断了他的学业；26岁时，有人还建议他为了健康着想而放弃僧侣生活。

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When an investment is made in a girl or woman, she invests 90 percent into her families, as opposed to the 30 to 40 percent that a boy or a man would invest.

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Not a man, either, just a boy of eighteen or twenty, fairly thickset and not at all feminine.

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And so it is that if you are a good little Dutch girl or boy, you can expect two Christmas visits from a kindly, old man.

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