Chapter One:
對Miss Baker的描述：
A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear.
-- 這兒“unashamed”是諷刺Miss Baker不知羞恥。
‘You mean to say you don’t know?’ said Miss Baker, honestly surprised. ‘I thought everybody knew.’
-- 這兒用的“honestly surprised”能讓人覺得她Miss Baker經常是裝的驚奇。
Chapter Two:
對Myrtle的描述：
Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door.
-- Myrtle 有這麽胖嗎？
‘It’s just a crazy old thing,’ she said. ‘I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.’
-- Myrtle 還很虛榮。
對Myrtle妹妹Catherine的描述：
She came in with such a proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here. But when I asked her she laughed immoderately, repeated my question aloud and told me she lived with a girl friend at a hotel.
-- Catherine 象她姐姐一樣很理所當然的把別人的東西當成自己的東西。
