He had started as a deck boy at a pound a month on a ship of the Allan Line going out to Canada.

他一开始在阿伦航运公司的一艘开往加拿大的船上做舱面水手，月薪一英镑。

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Poet Laureate Andrew Motion is intent on saving future generations from wracking their brains about what that boy was doing on the burning deck or what Philip Larkin said about their parents.

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She said that she could see a young boy with curly blond hair scrubbing the deck of the vessel which she believes is dated from about 1426.

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