Everyone in the office knew that the manager and the secretary were angry with each other because they aired their dirty linen in public 办公室里的每个人都知道经理同秘书关系不睦,因为他们在大庭广众之下说出了他们吵架的事。
Every time that golden - haired girls and men in dirty linen came out and stared at him he returned to his post in front of the reading room , where , looking in between two advertisements posted on a windowpane , he was always greeted by the same sight . it was a little old man , sitting stiff and solitary at the vast table and holding a green newspaper in his green hands under the green light of one of the lamps 每当有不戴帽子的姑娘和衣衫肮脏的男人走出来,上下打量着他时,他便回到阅览室前面,伫立在那儿,从贴在玻璃窗上的两张广告中间向里面张望,映入他眼帘的还是同样景象:一个小老头子独自一人僵直地坐在一张硕大无朋的桌子边,在绿色的灯光下,用绿色的双手捧着一张绿色的报纸阅读着。