" That's my old stamp collection, " he confessed sheepishly.

“那是我的旧集邮， ” 他不好意思地承认。

Jan expressed polite interest in Edward’s stamp collection.

【polite，politely，politeness】简对爱德华的集邮表示出礼节性的兴趣。

When he was 12, he worked as a dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant in order to fund his stamp collection.

12岁时，他在一家中餐馆当洗碗工，以资助他的集邮活动。

His favorite diversion until he was fourteen was his stamp collection; enormous, as nearly exhaustive as a boy's could be—his grandfather considered fatuously that it was teaching him geography.

十四岁之前，他最喜欢的消遣是集邮。巨大的，几乎像男孩一样详尽无遗——他的祖父愚蠢地认为这是在教他地理。