作为一个孩子，她渴望吸取知识的养分。

As a child, she was starved of intellectual nourishment.

《牛津词典》

作为一个孩子，我经历了多年的孤独。

I experienced years of loneliness as a child.

youdao

作为一个孩子，我无法理解他。

Being a child, I was unable to understand him.

youdao

First of all, it suggests of course that he was giving language to something, making a specific image out of something, that didn't quite have that specific content in his experience as a child.

第一，这的确可以反映出,他是在描述东西，运用某种东西来描述一个形象，在他作为孩子的经历中,那东西没有特殊的意义。

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