When I was a___boy____, there was but one__permanent _____ambition among my comrades in our village

Question

When I was a___boy____, there was but one__permanent _____ambition among my comrades in our village on the west ___bank ____of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a ___steamboatman _______. We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only __transient ___.When a circus came and went, it left us all __burning _____ to become clowns; the first Negro minstrel show that ever came to our section left us all suffering to __try ____ that kind of life; now and___then ___ we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. These ambitions faded out, each of its __turn _____;but the ambition to be a steamboatman always __remained _____. 这段话用中文怎么翻译啊

Answer 1

当我还是个小男孩时 就一直有一个梦想-成为一名水手。我和小伙伴们生长在密西西比河西岸的一个小村庄，当时所有的伙伴们都梦想有朝一日成为一名水手。当为我们渐渐长大，随着环境和机遇的不同，我们的理想变了又变。当马戏团来表演时，就想当小丑；当黑人的境况每见日下，即使环境糟糕到上帝都允许我们成为海盗，我们还依旧希望能过上幸福的生活。当这些雄心壮志，日见离我们远去，昔日中那个-成为水手的梦想依然永存心间。

Answer 2

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Answer 3

中间的横是什么意思？

Answer 4

当我还是个孩子的时候, 我和我们密西西比河西岸村子里的伙伴们就有一个野心, 那就是成为一名摩托艇驾驶员