He was quite a skinny little boy.

他是个骨瘦如柴的小男孩。

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He was quite a practical boy.

他是个很实际的孩子。

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It would not blow over and soon the troublesome boy gave Mrs. Darling quite a shock.

它不会消失的，很快这个捣蛋的孩子就把达林太太吓了一大跳。

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"That's a preliminary communication, meaning we don't quite know the answer yet, but boy it looks like we are on to something big."

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So not quite Monte Carlo or bust, but a week where we might learn quite a lot about the boy from Dunblane.

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Raising a boy, for instance, is quite different from raising girls. (In our first time as parents, my husband and I had two daughters.) While my girls were emotional, easily upset, demonstrative and clingy, boys often slink into the house after school, trying to avoid all manner of human contact.

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That was quite a punch to the emotional solar plexus of an eight-year-old boy.

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