【英文原文】

Oxford Riverbank, England, 1999

"Hooked on history as a boy, 'Ned' [T.E. Lawrence] roamed the fields and riverbanks behind his home in Oxford, England, on the lookout for artifacts from Britain's age of chivalry. At about age ten, he learned the unhappy truth about his own family: He and his four brothers were illegitimate, his parents unmarried, and the family name, Lawrence, fictitious."

—From "Lawrence of Arabia," January 1999, National Geographic magazine

【中文翻译】

尼德[T.E. 劳伦斯]是一个沉迷于历史的男孩，他的家后面是英国牛津大学。他常常在那里的旷野和河畔上游荡，寻找英国骑士时期的人造物品。在他十岁的时候，他知道了关于自己家族不幸的真相：他和他的4个兄弟都是私生的，他的父母没有结婚，而他的姓劳伦斯是编造的。

——摘自1999年《国家地理杂志》1月号《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》