A sensitive boy’s humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself they are so acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess them-cannot but deny them passionately.
一个敏感的男孩所受的侮辱，对于那些脸皮厚的普通成年人来说，也许是件很有趣的事;但对这孩子自己来说，它们是如此尖锐，如此可耻，以致于他不能承认它们——他不能不热烈地否认它们。