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all sorts of vehicles driving at reckless speed up and down; men carrying doors;
各種各樣的車輛不顧危險地上下奔忙；人們搬著大大小小的門；
men walking along inside of window sashes, the easiest way to carry them;
沿著窗框進進出出——這是搬運房門最便捷的方式；
men shoveling; men wheeling wheelbarrows; not a man standing still; not a man with empty hands;
人們揮舞鐵鍬，推著獨輪手推車；沒有一個人站著看熱鬧，沒有一個人兩手空空地如無其事；
every man picking up something, and running to put it down somewhere else, as in a play;
大家都在拾著什么，然后跑著將其放到別處，就像戲劇里的場景似的；
and, all the while, "Clink! clink! clink!" ringing above the other sounds,
突然間“叮當，叮當，叮當！”聲蓋過了其他聲響，
the strokes of hundreds of hammers, like the "Anvil Chorus."
原來是數以百計錘子一齊砸下的聲音，仿佛“鐵砧合唱團”大合唱一樣。
"Where is Perry's Hotel?" we asked. One of the least busy of the throng spared time to point to it with his thumb, as he passed us.
“佩里旅店在哪兒？”我們打聽道。其中一位手里的活兒最少，他從我們身邊經過時，用大拇指給我們指了一下。
In some bewilderment we drew up in front of a large unfinished house,
我們仍舊有些茫然，順著手指的方向來到一幢很大的尚未完工的房子門前，
through the many uncased apertures of which we could see only scaffoldings, rough boards, carpenters' benches, and heaps of shavings.
透過露出的縫隙，我們只看到腳手架，沒有刷油的桌子，木工用的長凳以及成堆的刨花。
Streams of men were passing in and out through these openings, which might be either doors or windows;
人流從那些要么是門要么是窗戶的開口處進進出出；
no steps led to any of them. "Oh, yes! oh, yes! can accommodate you all!" was the landlord's reply to our hesitating inquiries.
他們中沒有一個人注意到我們的腳步聲。“啊，天哪，天哪，諸位大駕光臨！”這是店主對我們猶疑的詢問做出的回答。
He stood in the doorway of his dining-room, the streams of men we had seen going in and out were the fed and the unfed guests of the house.
他站在起居室的門口，我們曾目睹到的進進出出的人流原來是來這里用餐的客人。
