When he grew older, William Smith taught himself surveying from books he bought with his small savings, and at the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to a surveyor of the local parish.

当威廉·史密斯长大一些，他用自己的一点积蓄买了一些书，自学测量学，并且他18岁时在当地教区做了一名测量师的学徒。

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At a very small age, this boy was helping his parents, but Tom, in order to live a lavish life, gave no care to his parents.

这个男孩在很小的年纪就在帮助他的父母，但是汤姆为了过奢侈的生活，没有照顾他的父母。

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Small for his age, his sister Rosa began to call him Garrincha, a north-eastern name for the wren, a small bird popular in Pau Grande.

很小的时候，他的姐姐罗莎开始喊他“加林查”，这是东北部人对鹪鹩，一种在波格兰德随处可见的小鸟的称呼。

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Mike Repole never thought, at age 13, when he was making his first bets at a small track in Jamaica, New York, called Aqueduct, that today he would have his own horse competing in the Kentucky Derby, Stay Thirsty.

FORBES: Betting On The Kentucky Derby

The grandson of Lebanese immigrants, Jacob, now 63, was orphaned at age 16 and inherited his father's textile store in Lins, a small town in the state of Sao Paulo.

FORBES: A lively bird that gets the worms