Like me, he had lost his parents at a young age, so we felt a strong connection; we promised to be each other’s shoulder to cry on and soft place to fall when life was knocking us down.

我们都在很小时就失去了双亲，因此感觉我们之间有一种强烈的联系。 我们承诺过当生活上遇到打击时，要成为对方的避风港，互诉清肠。

youdao

It ended up with Coughlin and me wrestling and making holes in the wall and almost knocking the little cottage down: Alvah was pretty mad the next day.

这个以我跟库格林摔跤和在墙上弄穿数个孔洞并几乎把小屋拆毁而作结束：次日阿尔瓦非常生气。

youdao

So you can keep knocking, but wont knock me down, no love lost, no love found.

所以你继续敲着门吧，但别想把我掰倒，没有爱丢失，也没有爱被找到。

youdao

Later that night, after my mother had gone to sleep, my father came into my room without knocking, stood over my bed, then leaned down either to say something to me or to see if I was asleep.

NPR: Chapter 1