" You missed your calling, " I tell Mama. " You should have been a vocational counselor."

“你没接到电话，”我告诉母亲。“你应该当个职业顾问。”

The vocational counselor who advised this girl with a large vocabulary to become an author succeeded in doing only one thing: he turned an erstwhile happy stenographer into a frustrated, would-be novelist.

劝这个词汇量很大的女孩成为作家的职业顾问只成功地做了一件事：他把一个昔日快乐的速记员变成了一个沮丧的、未来的小说家。