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"Then I want to draw a check."
“我要提取一張支票。”
My idea was to draw out six dollars of it for present use. Someone gave me a checkbook and someone else seemed to think that I was a man who owned millions of dollars, but was not feeling very well. I wrote something on the check and pushed it towards the clerk. He looked at it.
我是想取出6美元來應(yīng)付目前的花銷。有人給我一本支票簿，另外有人似乎認(rèn)為我是一個(gè)百萬富翁，但現(xiàn)在心情不好。我在支票上寫了東西，把它推給了銀行職員。他看了看。
"What! Are you drawing it all out again?" he asked in surprise. Then I realized that I had written fifty-six dollars instead of six. I was too upset to reason now. I had a feeling that it was impossible to explain the thing. All the clerks had stopped writing to look at me.
“什么！你又要全部取出？”他驚訝地問。然后我意識到我寫的是56美元而不是6美元。 我現(xiàn)在心煩意亂，無法思考了。我感覺我沒辦法解釋清楚這件事。所有職員都停下筆來看我。
Bold and careless in my misery, I made a decision.
痛苦中我魯莽地做了一個(gè)決定。
"Yes, the whole thing."
“是的，所有的。”
"You wish to draw your money out of the bank?"
“你希望取出所有的錢？”
"Every cent of it."
“一分也不剩”
"Are you not going to put any more in the account?" said the clerk, astonished.
“你不打算再往賬戶里存錢了？”職員驚訝地問。
"Never."
“再也不了”
A foolish hope came to me that they might think something had insulted me while I was writing the check and that I had changed my mind.
我愚蠢地希望他們也許認(rèn)為我在填寫支票時(shí)覺得受了侮辱而改變主意。
