He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

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And the teacher wants a little boy and a girl to continue sitting next to each other because

老师很希望让他们继续这样坐着，因为

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And I have a friend who's a Parisian lawyer who works in Africa a lot, and when he was a little boy the Germans came to get his father who was a Greek Jew, and he was taken away and killed, of course.

我有个朋友,是在巴黎的律师总去非洲工作,他小的时候,德国人来抓他父亲因为他是希腊犹太人,他被抓走后遇害

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and the little girl doesn't want to sit next to the boy anymore.

但是小女孩不想再跟小男孩坐在一起了。

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