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“钢铁”是怎样炼成 　　His parents had not meant to abuse him; they had meant to love him, and they did love him. But Oliver had come late in their little pack of offspring, at a time when the challenge of child rearing was wearing thin, and he proved 2)susceptible to 3)mishaps. He was born with inturned feet and learned to crawl with 4)corrective casts up to his ankles. When they were at last removed, he cried in terror because he thought those heavy plaster boots scraping and bumping along the floor had been part of himself. 　　奥利弗的父母并非有意苛待他，他们本想疼爱他，并且也确实爱他。奥利弗是他们家那一小群孩子里较迟出生的，养育孩子已不甚艰难了，但厄运还是降临到了他身上。他天生双足内旋，在及至脚踝的石膏矫正器的辅助下才学会了爬行。当矫正器最终被取下来时，他惊恐地大哭起来，因为他以为那双刮擦、碰撞着地板的沉重石膏靴本是他身体的一部分。 　　 　　 　　One day in his 5)infancy, they found him on their dressing-room floor with a box of 6)mothballs, some of which were wet with 7)saliva; 8)in retrospect, they wondered if there had really been a need to rush him to the hospital and have his poor little stomach pumped. His face was graygreen afterward. The following summer, when he had learned to walk, his parents had unthinkingly swum off the beach together, striving for romantic harmony 9)in the wake of a late party and alcoholic quarrel, and were quite unaware, until they saw the lifeguard racing along the beach, that Oliver had 10)toddled after them and had been floating on his face for what might have been, given a less alert lifeguard, a fatal couple of minutes. This time, his face was blue, and he coughed for hours. 　　He was the least complaining of their children. He did not blame his parents when neither they nor the school authorities detected his “sleepy” right eye in time for therapy, with the result that when he closed that eye everything looked 11)intractably 12)fuzzy. Just the sight of the boy holding a schoolbook at a curious angle to the light made his father want to weep 13)impotently. 　　在奥利弗还是婴儿时，有一天，他的父母发现他坐在衣帽间的地板上，手里拿着一盒樟脑丸，其中一些沾满了口水。回想起来，他们都有点后悔当时把奥利弗立马送到医院洗胃去，好像也没这个必要。洗完胃，小孩脸都变青灰色了。第二年夏天，他学会了走路。在一次深夜聚会和酒后争吵之后，他的父母不经思索