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打印10 What dress should I wear? I had two school uniforms, a green dress, a brown dress, and one dress with three rows of frills for Sunday, too dressy for an interview. I had no shoes except flat-heeled school shoes, and tennis shoes. There was no time to make a dress and in those years no ready-made clothes existed, so Mother lengthened the green dress. I squeezed two pimples on my forehead, then went to the East market and bought some face powder, Butterfly brand, pink, made in Shanghai by a Japanese firm.
我該穿哪件衣服呢？我有兩套校服，一套綠的和一套褐色的女服，還有一條綴著三排花邊的女服，是過節(jié)穿的，穿著去面試太花哨了。我也沒什么鞋，只有學校發(fā)的平跟鞋，還有球鞋。現(xiàn)做是來不及了，那時又沒成衣出售，所以母親就把那套綠顏色的服裝放放長。我掐了額頭上的兩粒粉刺，接著去東單買了些蝴蝶牌香粉，粉紅色的，是一家日本公司在上海生產(chǎn)的。
11 The next morning, straw-hatted, with powder on my nose, I went with my father to the gates of the hospital.
第二天上午，我?guī)е弊樱亲由喜肓朔郏赣H來到醫(yī)院門口。
12 "It's not this gate, this is for the sick. It's the other gate, round the corner," said the porter.
“不是這個門，這是病人走的。走另外一扇門，拐彎就是，”看門的說。
13 The Yu Wang Fu Palace occupied a whole city block. We walked along its high grey outer wall, hearing the dogs scream in the kennels, and came to its other gate, which was the Administration building gate. It had two large stone lions, one male, one female. We crossed the marble courtyard, walked up the steps with their carved dragons coiling in the middle, into an entrance hall, with painted beams and intricate painted ceiling, red lacquered pillars, huge lamps. There was cork matting on the stone floor.
御王府占了整整一個街區(qū)。我們繞青灰高墻走，一路聽見狗在窩里尖叫，走著走著到了另一扇大門，是行政樓的門。門前是一公一母兩個大石獅子。我們穿過大理石庭院，走上正中雕有蟠龍的臺階，來到前廳，看見精致的雕梁畫棟，丹漆柱子，還有高高大大的燈臺。青石地面上鋪著軟木墊。
14 "I'll leave you," said Papa. "Try to make a good impression. " And he was gone.
“我走了，”爸爸說。“注意給人留個好印象。”說著他就走了。
15 I found the Comptroller's office easily; there was a messenger in the hall directing visitors. An open door, a room, two typewriters clattering and two women making them clatter.
我沒費周折就找到了審計主任的辦公室；廳里有個當差的給來訪者作指點。一扇開著的門，一間屋子，屋里兩臺咔嗒作響的打字機，兩位女士咔嗒咔嗒在打字。
16 I stood at the door and one of the women came to me. She had the new style of hair, all upstanding curls, which I admired, a dress with a print round the hem; she was very pregnant, so that her belly seemed to be coming at me first. She smiled. "Hello, what can I do for you?"
我站在門口，其中一位女士走上前來。她留著新式的發(fā)型，是我所喜歡的那種滿頭卷發(fā)豎立著的式樣，穿著沿褶邊印有花紋的裙子。由于她懷孕已快足月，所以她向我走過來時似乎是她的肚子最先到達我面前。她微微一笑。“你好，有事兒嗎？”
17 "I have an interview."
“我是來面試的。”
18 She took the letter from my hand. "Glad you could come. Now, just sit you down. No, sit down there. I'll tell Mr. Harned you've come."
她從我手里接過信。“真高興你來了。這樣吧，你先坐下。不，坐那兒。我去跟哈內(nèi)德先生說你來了。”
19 The office had two other doors besides the one to the corridor, on one was "Comptroller." That was the one she went through and returned from.
除了通走廊的門，辦公室另外還有兩扇門，一扇門上寫著“審計主任”。她從這扇門走了進去，一會兒又走出來。
20 "Mr. Harned will see you now."
“哈內(nèi)德先生這就見你。”
21 Mr. Harned was very tall, thin, with a small bald head, a long chin, enormous glasses. I immediately began to quiver with fright. His head was like a temple on top of a mountain, like the white pagoda on the hill in the North Sea Park. I could not hear a word of what he said. A paper and a pencil were in my hand, however, and Harned was dictating to me, giving me a speed test in shorthand.
哈內(nèi)德先生高高瘦瘦，小小的禿腦袋，尖尖的下巴，那副眼鏡奇大無比。我一下子害怕得哆嗦起來。他的腦袋就像是山頂上的廟宇，就像北海公園山上的白塔。他說了些什么我一句也沒聽進。可我手里拿著紙和筆，我怎么辦呢。哈內(nèi)德在給我口授著什么，讓我做速記的速度測試。
