They had served their business apprenticeships as grocery clerks, errand boys, telegraph messengers, and newspaper gamins.

他们作为杂货店店员、差事男孩、电报信使和报纸游戏员担任业学徒。

He glanced round at Tuppence's entry. There was a certain amount of the gamin element in the girl, at all events she invariably got on well with small boys. A sympathetic bond seemed instantly to be formed.

他了眼塔彭丝的入口。这个女孩身上有定的野蛮元素，无论如何她总是和小男孩相处得。种同情的纽带似乎立即形成了。