美国作家杰克·伦敦(1876-1916)在这个世界上只活了40个年头,然而他却尝遍了人世间的饥饿、寒冷、贫穷和艰辛。他年幼时即为生活所迫,流离失所而浪迹街巷与码头,当过报童、童工和滚球场上的小帮手。年龄稍大一点了,他在旧金山码头当过装卸工,在捕海豹的船上当过水手。他尝尽了生活在社会最底层的人 The American writer Jack London (1876-1916) lived only 40 years in this world, yet he tasted hunger, cold, poverty, and hardship in the world. When he was young, he was forced by his life. He drifted off streets and lanes and docks. He was a newspaper boy, a child laborer, and a small helper on a boules court. Slightly older, he worked as a stevedore at the San Francisco Pier and worked as a sailor on a seal boat. He tried the people who lived in the bottom of society