He used to think that his mother's job consisted of traveling in Pullmans, eating delicate viands turned out by the hotel chefs, and strewing Featherloom Petticoats along the path.

他曾经认为他母亲的工作就是在普尔曼旅行，吃酒店厨师制作的精美菜肴，并在路上散布羽毛织衬裙。

He was not quite light enough to travel in a pullman south of Mason-Dixon; he was of the Kyble-Berber-Sabaean-Hindu strain that belts across north Africa and Asia, more sympathetic to the European than the mongrel faces of the ports.

他的体重不够轻，无法在梅森-狄克逊以南乘坐四轮马车旅行。他属于遍布北非和亚洲的 Kyble-Berber-Sabaean-Hindu 血统，比起港口的杂种面孔，他更同情欧洲人。