"A principal described him to me as the smartest boy in the school," says Jacobs. "He was particularly good at math, even then.

Jacobs接着说“校长告诉我他是学校里最聪明的孩子”，“当时即使他特别小，他特别擅长数学，精于计算。

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Even as a little boy, you knew the difference.

即便是个孩童，都会知道其差异的。

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If I'd had a copy of this in my days as a boy diplomat, my Foreign Service career would have come to an even more abrupt halt!

如果我在刚当外交官的时候拥有这本书的话，我的外交官生涯估计早就结束了！

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Even as a boy, he showed he had unusual intelligence.

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And there were even newspaper articles about this boy genius as a musician.

但是报纸上甚至有,关于这个音乐天才的文章。

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You can find all kinds of influences, if you look hard enough you probably even hear the classical influences I had as a little,little boy."

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I, the incipient novelist, even as a boy, was fascinated by the way people do talk.

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But even as a young boy, he says, he remembers feeling that China had hope.

NPR: Unequal, Uneasy: Life on the China-Korea Border

But even as the adventures of a bespectacled boy wizard have proven that the world still has an appetite for the written word, one wonders if Hodgman still sees a place for the publishing world he abandoned a decade or so ago to great success.

ENGADGET: John Hodgman on the death of publishing and being a Mac trapped in a PC's body