Girls may think the shy teen boy is nice because he's not macho, for example, or the shy kids wind up on the school newspaper so they can write instead of do public speaking.

例如，女孩子们也许会觉得十几岁的害羞男孩挺好的，因为他还不是一个男子汉；或者为校报做事情的害羞孩子可以写文章而不必在公众面前演讲。

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It is hard for me to believe that a shy country boy who grew up on a family farm in central Montana is heading to Washington, D.

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But I was a very small and shy boy -- hard to imagine -- (laughter) -- so a lot of people were pushing and they were jostling about.

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The place is provincial England, the time is the nineteen-eighties, and the hero is Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner), a shy and studious boy who lives with his mother among the Plymouth Brethren, a religious sect.

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