His mother died when he was very young.

他很小的时候母亲就去世了。

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The musician who played it last night has learned to play the erhu since he was very young.

昨晚演奏二胡的音乐家很小的时候开始学习弹奏二胡。

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I was already old while he was very young.

那时我已老了，他还很小。

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Tim Burton made several of the drawings when he was very young growing up in Burbank,California.

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But then an old Yalie who took this course when he was very young, and later became an ancient Greek historian, took the wonderfully outlandish device of answering this question.

有一位老耶鲁人在年轻时选了这门课,后来成了一名历史学家,专攻古希腊史,他极其出色地回答了这个问题

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I used to have a dog that I would walk in this area a lotwhen he was very young.

我以前有一只狗，它很小的时候，我会经常在这里遛狗。

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Horace's owner had had him as a Christmas present about seven years ago when he was very young.

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"My father, to me, was 10 feet tall, " says Frazier, whose mother died when he was very young.

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"He dreamt of being a missionary when he was very young, and he realised that dream, " Father Belanger says.

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