He was sent to borstal.

他被送往少年感化院。

As a boy he did three years in Borstal ， came out, married at eighteen on the strength of a successful burglary, and shortly afterwards enlisted in the artillery.

年少時(shí)，他在少年犯感化院待了3年，出來后憑借一次成功的盜竊在18歲時(shí)娶了妻子，后來當(dāng)了炮兵。

He was sent to borstal for stealing.

他因偷竊被送進(jìn)少年犯感化院.

But Mr Sillitoe spoke too, in the voice of Smith in "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" ( 1959), for the petty-criminal underclass, Borstal boys:

而在1959年創(chuàng)作的小說《一名長(zhǎng)跑運(yùn)動(dòng)員的孤獨(dú)》中，作家借主人公史密斯之口也為那些輕微犯罪的草根階層——教養(yǎng)院男孩發(fā)言：