This was once a bustling river port.

这里曾经是一个繁华的河港。

As a description of your typical middle manager, it is hard to surpass Marlow's view of the boss at a river port in Joseph Conrad's " Heart of Darkness" .

对典型的中层管理者的描述很难超越约瑟夫·康拉德的《黑暗的心》中马洛对一位河港老板的看法。