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Translatios 1. It might be a way to avoid the indignity of having to ask for money all the time.” I handed them some magazines in a plastic bag someone had hung on our doorknob. A message printed on the bag offered leisurely, lucrative work (“Big Bucks the Easy Way!”) of delivering more such bags. “你们若想避免因为老是向人讨钱而有失尊严的话，这兴许是一种办法。”我将挂在我们门把手上的、装在一个塑料袋里的几本杂志拿给他们。塑料袋上印着一条信息说，需要招聘人投递这样的袋子，这活儿既轻松又赚钱。（“轻轻松松赚大钱!”） 2. “But it pains me,” I said, “to find that you both have been panhandling so long that it no longer embarrasses you.” 看到你们俩伸手讨钱讨惯了一点也不感到尴尬的样子，真使我痛心，”我说。 3. What I was being blamed for, it turned out, was a newspaper strike which made it necessary to hand-deliver the advertising inserts that normally are included with the Sunday paper. 我之所以受到指责，事情原来是这样：由于发生了一起报业工人罢工，通常夹在星期日报纸里的广告插页，必须派人直接投送出去。 4. At noon the following day I returned to the hotel and found an urgent message to telephone my wife. Her voice was unnaturally high and quavering. 第二天中午，我回到旅馆，看到一份紧急留言，要我马上给妻子回电话。她的声音高得很不自然，而且有些颤抖。 5. When I returned, there was another urgent call from my wife. “Did you have a nice lunch?” she asked sweetly. I had had a marvelous steak, but knew better by now than to say so. 我餐后回来，妻子又打来一只紧急电话 “你午餐吃得不错吧?”她用悦耳的声音问道。我吃的牛排好极了，但这次我学乖了，还是不说为妙 6. Your college sons have hired their younger brothers and sisters and a couple of neighborhood children to help for five dollars each. Assembly lines have been set up. In the language of diplomacy, there is ’movement 你的大学生儿子已经雇了他们的弟弟妹妹和两三个邻居的小孩帮忙，工钱一人五块，建起了流水作业线。用外交术语来说，事情‘有进展’ 7. “It’s very discouraging. They’ve been at it for hours. Plastic bags have been filled and piled to the ceiling, but all this hasn’t made a dent, not a dent, in the situation! It’s almost as if the inserts keep reproducing themselves!” 相反，非常叫人泄气。他们干了好几个小时了。装好的塑料袋，一直堆到天花板，但一切努力收效很小。这些广告宣传品简直就像是不停地自行生产出来一样. 8. Your college sons must learn that one does not get the best out of employees by threatening them with bodily harm.” 你那上大学的儿子必须明白，威胁雇员，说要揍他们，是不可能使他们卖力的 9 O