Dick had outgrown the book; he wanted now to do more spade work; if he got an exchange fellowship he could count on plenty of routine.

迪克已经长大了，不能再看书了；他现在想做更多的工作。如果他得到交换奖学金，他可以指望有很多例行公事。

They didn't begin by borrowing money to build a house; no, they came up one year and did their spade work and went away again; vanished as if they were dead.

他们不是从借钱盖房子开始的； 不，他们来了一年， 做了他们的铲子工作， 然后又走了； 就好像他们死了一样消失了。