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XV. MY BOY.
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Every boy is two or three boys, or twenty or thirty different kinds of boys in one; he is all the time living many lives and forming many characters; but it is a good thing if he can keep one life and one character when he gets to be a man. He may turn out to be like an onion when he is grown up, and be nothing but hulls1, that you keep peeling off, one after another, till you think you have got down to the heart, at last, and then you have got down to nothing.
All the boys may have been like my boy in the Boy's Town, in having each an inward being that was not the least like their outward being, but that somehow seemed to be their real self, whether it truly was so or not. But I am certain that this was the case with him, and that while he was joyfully2 sharing the wild sports and conforming to the savage3 usages of the boy's world about him, he was dwelling4 in a wholly different world within him, whose wonders no one else knew. I could not tell now these wonders any more than he could have told them then; but it was a world of dreams, of hopes, of purposes, which he would have been more ashamed to avow5 for himself than I should be to avow for him. It was all vague and vast, and it came out of the books that he read, and that filled his soul with their witchery, and often held him aloof6 with their[172] charm in the midst of the plays from which they could not lure7 him wholly away, or at all away. He did not know how or when their enchantment8 began, and he could hardly recall the names of some of them afterwards. First of them was Goldsmith's "History of Greece," which made him an Athenian of Pericles's time, and Goldsmith's "History of Rome," which naturalized him in a Roman citizenship
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hulls
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dwelling
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enchantment
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citizenship
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slaying
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| 专制统治者( tyrant的名词复数 ); 暴君似的人; (古希腊的)僭主; 严酷的事物 | |
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tyrant
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grandeur
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| n.伟大,崇高,宏伟,庄严,豪华 | |
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treatise
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mythology
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auction
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prosody
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guilt
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wretch
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purblind
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cloisters
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monks
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maxims
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fables
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tormented
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alley
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rapture
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virtue
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clove
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mortification
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contriving
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| (不顾困难地)促成某事( contrive的现在分词 ); 巧妙地策划,精巧地制造(如机器); 设法做到 | |
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splendor
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foe
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incorrigible
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sloven
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fatigue
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vocation
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conceal
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dangling
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doom
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scrap
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bloody
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villain
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