when one was a boyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

There was one time, when he was little, that he was walking with a water bottle (another theory has it that it was a soybean curd) and a mischevious boy surprised him from a hiding place, and Saigo, terrified and dropped the water bottle on the ground, but then thereafter he picked up the water bottle as if nothing had happened.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

幼少期、近所に使いで水瓶（豆腐と言う説もある）を持って歩いている時に、物陰に隠れていた悪童に驚かされた時、西郷は水瓶を地面に置いた上で、心底、驚いた表現をして、その後何事も無かったかのように水瓶を運んで行った。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Even after the death of Yoritomo, he worked as a grand person of the Minamoto clan, for example, he was in charge of kakan no yaku (role to place a crown on the head of boy when he becomes adult) at the time of genpuku (celebrate one's coming of age) of MINAMOTO no Sanetomo, the third Shogun.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

頼朝死後も源氏一門の重鎮として、三代将軍源実朝の元服の際には加冠役（烏帽子親）を勤めている。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス