乔治,斯蒂芬生生于一七八一年,在英国中部东海岸的一个矿区小村庄。他的幼年生活过得极端贫困。他父亲是个煤矿司炉工,靠着微薄的工资,赡养六个孩子。在此情景下,乔治和他的弟妹们常常受冻挨饿。乔治八岁就为生活所迫去给邻居看牛,一天只赚得两个便上(英铜币)。十二岁,他又到一个农场工作,干着摘菜、播种施肥以及赶马扶犁等各种重活。不久,父亲给他 George, Stephen was born in 1781 in a small mining village on the east coast of central England. His childhood is extremely poor. His father was a coal miners fireman, dependent on meager wages to support six children. In this scenario, George and his brothers and sisters often suffer from starvation. When George was eight, he forced his neighbors to look at cattle for life, earning only two swills a day. At the age of twelve, he went to work on a farm, doing various kinds of work such as picking vegetables, planting fertilizers, and catching plows. Soon, my father gave him