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在我十七岁生日那天,我到登记总署当上了一名二等执行文书。那是一份临时性工作,我中学毕业了,马上要去英国了,要去上大学了,这份工作正好填补上这段空档;那是我人生中最有希望的时光。登记总署就在圣文森特大街上那座红房子里。圣文森特大街是我在西班牙港最早熟悉的大街之一。我那时候是一个乡下男孩儿,而今在内心深处我依然是一个乡下男孩儿。只有一个乡下男孩儿才会像我那样来到这座城市的时候,热爱这座城市。这是一九三八年或者是一九三九年的事。我爱这座城镇一切跟乡下不一样的地方。我喜爱那一条条带着拱廊的
On my seventeenth birthday, I went to the Registration Service to become a second-performing instrument. It was a temporary job. After I graduated from high school, I was going to England soon. I was going to college and the job just filled the gap. That was the most promising time in my life. The Registrar is in the red house on St. Vincent Avenue. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is one of my first familiar streets in Port of Spain. I was a country boy then, and now I’m still a country boy in my heart. Only a country boy will come to this city like me, love the city. This is a matter of 1938 or 1939. I love all the different places in the town from the countryside. I like that strip of arcades