Then I told him the whole circumstance, how my clothes had been left to dry in the galley, and how, later, I was nearly beaten by the cook when I mentioned the matter.

我告诉了他整个情况。 我如服晾在厨房里，而我提起被偷时那厨工又如几乎揍了我顿。

" That'll do. Go to the cook and learn your duties" .

" 行了，到厨工那儿去学你的活儿。"

" Yes, sir, " the cook eagerly interpolated, with appeasing and apologetic servility.

" 是，先生。" 厨工急切地插话，带着道歉劝解的谄媚口气。

" Have you any dry clothes I may put on" ? I asked the cook.

" 你有干服给我换吗？" 我问厨工。

Hanging over the cook's arm was a loose and crumpled array of evil-looking and sour-smelling garments.

厨工的手臂上挂了套皱巴巴的服，又臭又难看。

His last word, in striking contrast with the smoothness of his previous utterance, snapped like the lash of a whip. The cook quailed under it.

他那" 明白" 两字是像鞭抽出来的，跟以前的圆滑截然不同。 厨工给抽得蔫头耷脑。

" I sleep in the attic, next to the scullery maid, " she said.

“我睡在阁楼里，挨着女厨工。”她说。

The housekeeper, on the other hand, was in charge of all of the female staff, the maids and cooking staff, making sure that the beds were made, the corridors were swept, fires were made and so on.

另方面，女管家负责管理所有女性员工，包括女仆厨工， 确保床铺整理妥当，走廊打扫干净， 壁炉生好火等。

The top floor provided living quarters for the kitchen staff.

【quarter】顶层是厨房厨工的住处。