I learned the most valuable (and commercial) part of my life's work while washing motel sheets and restaurant tablecloths at the New Franklin Laundry in Bangor.

我这辈子的本事，最有价值（也最值钱）的部分是我在班戈的新富兰克林洗衣店洗汽车旅馆的床单以及饭店桌布的时候学会的。

My wife made a crucial difference during those two years I spent teaching at Hampden (and washing sheets at New Franklin Laundry during the summer vacation) .

我在翰普顿教书的那些年里（暑假还去新富兰克林洗衣房洗床单），我太太起到了非常关键的作用。

I wrote after work; when we lived on Grove Street, which was close to the New Franklin, I would sometimes write a little on my lunch hour, too.

我下班后写作；一度我们住在格鲁弗大街上，离新富兰克林很近，我中午吃饭休息的工夫也会写一点。

I couldn't find a teaching job and so went to work at New Franklin Laundry for wages not much higher than those I had been making at Worumbo Mills and Weaving four years before.

我找不到教职，于是去了新富兰克林洗衣房工作，赚的薪水跟我四年前在沃伦博纺织厂差不多。

I never saw personal laundry at New Franklin unless it was a “fire order” being paid for by an insurance company (most fire orders consisted of clothes that looked okay but smelled like barbecued monkey meat) .

在新富兰克林我从来没见过个人衣物，除非是保险公司付钱的所谓“火灾洗涤物”（多数火灾洗涤物里面的衣服看起来都还OK，但闻起来就像烧烤猴子肉）。