He worked at a variety of jobs-as a carpenter, insurance salesman, keeper of a temperance hotel-before taking a position as a janitor at Anderson's (now the University of Strathclyde) in Glasgow.

之后他做过许多工作——木匠、保险推销员、禁酒旅店管理员，然后他来到格拉哥斯安德森大学（现在的斯特拉恩克莱德大学）当了一名门房。

The concierge will be somebody of very modest means.

门房的财产不多。

Now, Mary Kate said, " What if a person is very well suited to having a certain role, like the role of being a janitor, but wants something else, wants to reach higher, wants to choose another way of life? "

玛丽·凯特说：“如果某个人特别适合一个社会角色，比如说当门房，但这个人想做别的，想爬得更，想选择另一种生活，又该怎么？”

Will you pack up my clothes and leave them with the concierge?

“你好不好把我的衣服理一理，放在下边门房那儿？

I-I slept on the couch in the lodge.

我晚在门房睡沙发。

She did manage to get the porter to help me into bed.

她倒是叫门房帮忙把我搬上床了。

The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned away.

门房不拉拉通到楼上的铃铛，转过身去。

The portress tells my mother everything: my sister Silvia heard him screaming from the terrace one day, when his father had sent him headlong down stairs, because he had asked for a few soldi to buy a grammar.

门房时常将他们家的事情告诉给我母亲听。雪尔维姊姊有一天听得泼来可西哭。据说他向他父亲要买文法书的钱，父亲把他从楼梯上踢了下来。

The house inhabited by the clerk had neither bell, knocker, nor porter. Charles knocked loudly at the shutters with his hands. A policeman happened to pass by. Then he was frightened, and went away.

实习生住的房子既没有门铃，也没有门环，还没有门房。 夏尔举起拳头，重重捶了几下窗板。 一个警察走过来了，于是他吓得赶快走开。

I have something to tell you, she said. Mr Behrman died of pneumonia today. He was ill only two days. The janitor found him in his room downstairs helpless with pain.

“我有件事要告诉你，”她说，“Behrman 先生患肺炎今天去世了。他只病了两天。门房发现他在楼下自己那间房里痛得动弹不了。

A message from the porter announced that, at the Warden's orders, a Reservation Guard had come round with a plane and was waiting on the roof of the hotel.

门房送来了消息，按照总监的命令，一个保留卫士已开来一部飞机，在旅馆房顶待命。

My father forgave me; but I remained rather sad and then my mother sent me, with the porter's big son, to take a walk on the Corso.

父亲饶恕了我了，我还悲着。母亲送我出去，叫我和门房的儿子到科尔索河边去散步。

I got up, went downstairs, and asked the concierge if there was a quiet place where I could work longhand for a bit.

我起床，下楼，问门房有没有个僻静方可以让我写点东西。

Kit sends the Baudelaires, disguised as hotel concierges, to investigate Hotel Denouement to find a sugar bowl that contains a secret.

基特派波德莱尔一家伪装成酒店门房，去调查登努门特酒店，寻找一个包含秘密的糖碗。

When the concierge asked how long she would be staying, she said, " Until I die."

当门房问她会呆多久时，她说，“直到我死去。”

Then she noticed a little house, so she hurried towards it, and knocked on the door.

她发现了一所小房子，她匆忙向房子走去，并敲响了门房。

" Ring down to Mr. Helmholtz Watson, " he ordered the Gamma-Plus porter, " and tell him that Mr. Bernard Marx is waiting for him on the roof."

“给下面赫姆霍尔兹·华生先生打个电话，”他命令门房的伽玛加，“通知他伯纳·马克思在屋顶上等候。”

At their historic front gates, you'll find a porter's lodge.

在他们历史悠久的前门，您会发现一个门房。

" Silver sous, " said the porter in a low voice.

“银苏”，门房低声说。

My mother used to say, have respect from the doorman to the director.

我母亲经常说，要从门房到总经理都得到尊重。