欧美文化博览 文森特·凡· 高传(14)（在线收听）

He eventually found one, here in Ramsgate, teaching French, German, arithmetic and dictation to young boys at a school opened in this building by a Mr. William Stokes.

他最终找到了一份工作,在拉姆斯哥特，他在这位威廉·斯托克斯先生的建筑开办的学校内教男孩子们法语,德语,算术和听写。

This job was unpaid, just board and lodging.

这份工作没有报酬,只提供食宿。

But he was teaching and that pressed Vincent’s vocational buzzer.

但他的教学使文森特一鸣惊人。

The school was crummy, Dickensian, one might say.

这所学校非常肮脏, 有人可能会说是狄更斯式的。

The floors of the bedroom in which the boys slept were rotten, the windows broken.

男孩们睡的卧室的地板腐朽不堪而且窗户破旧。

And Vincent complained desperately about the bedbugs.

而文森特对于臭虫疯狂抱怨。

He did a couple of drawings out of the school window, of this view.

他透过窗户外的景点画了几幅画，而这一景致。

They’re rather delightful.

它们相当讨人喜欢。