He spent his youth immersed in a world of religion and music, which gave him a bookish demeanor that never faded, even under the stress of his later peripatetic existence.
小小年紀就整日浸淫在宗教和音樂中，使得蕭泰然即使日後顛沛流離，卻始終不脫濃濃的書卷味。