动荡的童年比尔·克林顿于1946年8月19日,即抗日战争胜利后的一年零四天出生在阿肯色州西南部一个名叫霍普的小村庄。他的父亲威廉·希莱斯在一次车祸中命丧黄泉,他从两岁起由外祖父母抚养,很小就帮助外祖父埃尔德里奇·卡西迪经营杂货店。比尔七岁时,母亲嫁给罗杰·克林顿,比尔改姓继父的姓。克林顿爱继父,继父也视他如己出。然而继父既不开朗也不健谈,还酗酒打人。有一次,年仅十几岁的比尔指着母亲和同母异父的弟弟警告继父说:“你如果再打他们,必须先从我这儿通过!”从而使他的继父败下阵来。 Turbulent childhood Bill Clinton was born on 19 August 1946, one year and four days after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in a small village called Hope in southwestern Arkansas. His father, William Chillis, was killed in a car accident by his grandparents, who had been raised by his grandparents since he was two years old, and helped his grandfather, Elder Ridge Cassidy, run the grocery store. When Bill was seven, her mother married Roger Clinton and Bill changed her surname to her stepfather’s surname. Clinton loves her stepfather, and stepfather sees him as herself. However, both step-father neither cheerful nor talkative, but also alcohol and beating. Once, as a teenager, Bill pointed to his mother and his stepdy brother and warned stepfather, “If you strike them again, you must pass me first!” And defeated his stepfather.