YEARS OF WANDERINGS 浪跡天涯 | Chapter 18
2017年12月26日, 星期二
According to Tseyu's own story, "There used to be three persons in this bureau, but when I arrived two of them had been sent elsewhere, and I had to attend to everything myself. Every day I had to sit at the shop, selling wine and salt, and supervising the weighing of pigs and fish for tax assessment. In order to carry out my duty I had to wrangle with the farmers and merchants about weights and measures. At night when I came back, I was so tired that I stretched myself in bed and fell asleep and did not wake up till the morning. The next day I had to do the same things again."
舊以三吏共事，余至，其二人者適皆罷去，事委于一。晝則坐市區鬻鹽、沽酒、稅豚魚，與市人爭尋尺以自效。暮歸筋力疲廢，輒昏然就睡，不知夜之既旦。旦則復出營職。
attend to
wrangle
■（尤指長時間的）爭論，爭辯：
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noun
~ (with sb) (over sth) | ~ (between A and B) -
verb
~ (with sb) (over/ about sth)
stretch
■to straighten your body or your arms or legs so that they are as long as possible, in order to exercise the joints (= place where two bones are connected) after you have been in the same place or position for a long time 伸展，舒展（四肢）：
- Andrea turned out the light and stretched full-length on the bed.
安德烈亞關了燈，舒展全身躺到了床上。
stretch (yourself) out
■to lie with your legs and arms spread out in a relaxed way 舒展四肢躺下 ：
- I just want to get home and stretch out on the sofa.
我只想回家攤開四肢舒舒服服地躺在沙發上。 - He stretched himself out on the sofa and fell asleep.
他在沙發上躺下睡著了。
The brothers had not seen each other for four years, and Tseyu had put on a little more flesh. He did not look in the best of health, for he was too busy to practice yoga at night.
讀到這句話的時候有點好笑，想到之前的調侃“英年早肥”，以及，年輕人不要總熬夜。
以上。
