He was proud of his career as an editor, just as he was proud of his father's rise from stoker to full-time train driver, and of the shop his mother ran from the front room.

他为自己编辑职业感到自豪，就像他为父亲从司炉升为全职火车司机感到自豪一，他也为母亲在前厅经营感到自豪。

The locomotive, which was slowly approaching with deafening whistles, was that which, having been detached from the train, had continued its route with such terrific rapidity, carrying off the unconscious engineer and stoker.

原来是一辆机车，不住地鸣着汽笛，慢慢地开了过来。这正是原来那辆机车。它自从甩掉了列车以后，就以惊人速度带着半死不活司机和司炉继续向前飞驰。

He thought they managed the vessel like gentlemen, and that the stokers fired up like heroes.

为了不辜负路路通好意，水手们干起活来都象绅士一非常认真。司炉们烧起火来象英雄一不顾疲劳。

And there was a fireman dead in the bottom.

而且底部有一个死去司炉工。

These were your perfect people to go down into the bowels of the ship, to trim coal, To stoke coal, to be the fireman, to actually stoke the engines, the trimmers to work in appalling weather, in filthy darkness.

这些人是完美船底工人，负责调整煤炭，添煤，担任司炉，实际操作引擎，在恶劣天气和肮脏黑暗中工作煤炭修剪工。

He was dressed like a mechanic or a stoker in an old pea-jacket with baggy pockets, with an oil-skin cap on his head, a woollen scarf round his neck, and tarred boots on his feet.

他打扮像个机械师或司炉工，穿着一件很宽旧粗呢夹克，头上戴着一顶油皮帽，脖子上围着一条羊毛围巾，脚上穿着涂了柏油靴子。

Stokers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on steps, and posts, and palings, wiping their swarthy visages, and contemplating coals.

司炉工从低矮地下通道进入工厂院子， 坐在台阶、柱子和栅栏上， 擦着黝黑脸， 凝视着煤块。

" I can do it, " he said sullenly. " I don't need you to show me how to spice wine" .

到厨房时，热派做着燕麦饼，另三个厨子在剔鱼骨，司炉小弟则在火焰上翻转野猪。" 大人要晚餐，配上加热香料葡萄酒，" 艾莉亚宣布，" 不能凉掉。" 听罢此言，一个厨子连忙洗手，取出一个锅子，倒满粘稠芬芳红酒，然后叫热派边看着火边把香料捣碎了加进去。艾莉亚过去帮忙。

" " At this moment, he's on a freighter, either as a deck hand or a stoker, on his way to New York." " You don't mean that?

“”此刻，他正在一艘货轮上，要么是甲板工人，要么是司炉工，正在去纽约路上。”“你不是那个意思吗？

When White Star's newest vessel is originally scheduled to depart from Southampton, he is thousands of miles away, working as a fireman on the Kinthorn's Castle, sailing home from the Cape of Good Hope.

当白星航运公司最新船只原定从南安普敦出发时，他正在数千英里外， 作为一名司炉工在金索恩城堡号上工作，这艘船正从好望角航行回家。