His father died when he was ten, leaving the family in straitened circumstances.

他十岁时父亲去世了，家里生活变得很拮据。

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He lost his leg when he was ten, but learned to overcome his handicap.

他10岁时失去了一条腿，但学会了战胜自己的残疾。

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When I was ten, I wanted to work on my father's ship. When Thomas was ten, he asked me to let him plant the corn.

当我十岁的时候，我想在我父亲的船上工作。托马斯十岁的时候，他要求我让他种玉米。

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But his life began to change when he was only ten years old.

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Welles heard that obviously, and he quickly came back. But when she died, he stopped taking lessons, before that, he was adept before he was ten years old.

威尔斯当然听到了，所以他,很快回来了，但在,他母亲去世之后，他就不再上课了，在这之前，在他十岁的时候他就对乐器很熟练了。

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He worked at all sorts of jobs: in factories, at a mill, on a newspaper. He was a schoolteacher, and of course he was a farmer, too, when his grandfather gave him a farm to work, which he did, for ten years in Derry, New Hampshire.

他做过各种工作，在工厂，磨坊，报社，他也当过教师，他是一个农民，他祖父给了他一块地，十年里他都在新汉普夏羊劳作。

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When he was ten, he was accepted at the Beijing conservatory.

NEWYORKER: The Olympian

That he turned to technology to solve the problem was only natural: When he was ten years old in his native Modesto, Calif.

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His father died when he was ten, and his family was so poor that he wore ragged hand-me-downs to school, including, when he was six, a dress his older sister had grown out of.

ECONOMIST: Charles Bronson