【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

【中文翻譯】

尼德[T.E. 勞倫斯]是一個沉迷于歷史的男孩，他的家后面是英國牛津大學。他常常在那里的曠野和河畔上游蕩，尋找英國騎士時期的人造物品。在他十歲的時候，他知道了關于自己家族不幸的真相：他和他的4個兄弟都是私生的，他的父母沒有結婚，而他的姓勞倫斯是編造的。

——摘自1999年《國家地理雜志》1月號《阿拉伯的勞倫斯》