handle claims for injury at work

处理工伤索赔

八卦：卡夫卡原来就是保险公司的干活；爱因斯坦则在银行打工。

 

prose sketches

散文短篇

注意：prose的可数性

 

He took early retirement in 1922.

他于1922年提前退休

注意：冠词、搭配

八卦：那时没低保吧……

 

a huge mass of notebooks and diaries

大量日记与笔记

注意：巨蟹男的可怖。

 

start/found?a family?or?set up house

成家

注意：冠词（下划线表示斜杠左右可替换部分）

八卦：卡夫卡和我是两个极端，他为结婚愁断了魂。

 

练习

翻译以下两句：

Brief returns to work alternated with stays in sanatoria.

The tormented Kafka is for the 20th (and so far the 21st) century what the sombre figure of Byron was for the 19th.

 

来源

Robertson, Ritchie.?Kafka: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.