他从未长大，但他从未停止成长。

He never grew up; but he never stopped growing.

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在被洛杉矶时报问道是否愿意加入美国国籍时，在伦敦出生成长的小贝说道：“我希望有一天可以，我想那将非常不错，不过我在出生英国，在那里长大，你知道，我永远都会是一个‘英国人’。”

I'm English born and bred and that's the way I'll always be. I'm an Englishman, you know.

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有些人永远不会长大，而是卡在了常人成长的某个阶段。

Some people never grow up but get stuck in one phase or another of human development.

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That has a typical Bildungsroman structure, the structure of a story about a boy who goes out from his home and sort of becomes a man through his travels.

这里具备一个典型成长小说的框架，故事结构讲的是,一个背井离乡的男孩,在旅途中长大成人。

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