I didn't want it—the work was hard and boring, the mill itself a dingy fuckhole overhanging the polluted Androscoggin River like a workhouse in a Charles Dickens novel—but I needed the paycheck.

不是我想干这份工作——活又累又枯燥，肮脏乌黑的厂房就像狄更斯小说里的工厂一样，俯瞰污染的安德罗斯科金河——但我需要工资。