He was left-handed.

他是左撇子。

My father was left-handed but in his time he was forced to be right-handed. However, he did swing an ax left-handed.

我父亲是个左撇子，但是在他生活的那个年代，他总是被迫的使用右手。然而，他确实是用左手抡斧头。

The owner, Dick Sanders, was already about seventy, and, like many people his age back then, he thought it was a bad thing to be left-handed, so he decided to change me, a deeply left-handed person.

老板迪克。桑德斯那时已70来岁，在那时，和他的多数同龄人一样，他也认为左撇子不是件好事，所以他决定改变我这个顽固的左撇子。