He was often haunted by the idea that next time the door opened he would take the family's affairs in hand again just as he used to do; once more, after this long interval, there appeared in his thoughts the figures of the chief and the chief clerk, the commercial travelers and the apprentices, the porter who was so dull-witted, two or three friends in other firms, a chambermaid in one of the rural hotels, a sweet and fleeting memory, a cashier in a milliner's shop, whom he had wooed earnestly but too slowly-they all appeared, together with strangers or people he had quite forgotten, but instead of helping him and his family they were one and all unapproachable and he was glad when they vanished.
有一个 想法老是折磨他:下一次门再打开时他就要像过去那样重新 挑起一家的担子了;隔了这么久以后,他脑子里又出现了老 板、秘书主任、那些旅行推销员和练习生的影子,他仿佛还 看见了那个其蠢无比的听差、两三个在别的公司里做事的朋 友、一个乡村客栈里的侍女,这是个一闪即逝的甜蜜的回忆; 还有一个女帽店里的出纳,格里高尔殷勤地向她求过爱,但 是让人家捷足先登了 — — 他们都出现了,另外还有些陌生的 或他几乎已经忘却的人,但是他们非但不帮他和他家庭的忙, 却一个个都那么冷冰冰,格里高尔看到他们从眼前消失,心 里只有感到高兴。ParaCrawl Corpus ParaCrawl Corpus