Of Human Bondage 人性的枷锁 Chapter 54

The examination Philip had passed before he was articled to a chartered accountant was sufficient qualification for him to enter a medical school. He chose St. Luke's because his father had been a student there, and before the end of the summer session had gone up to London for a day in order to see the secretary. He got a list of rooms from him, and took lodgings ¹ in a dingy ² house which had the advantage of being within two minutes' walk of the hospital., ,'You'll have to arrange about a part to dissect,' the secretary told him. 'You'd better start on a leg; they generally do; they seem to think it easier.', ,Philip found that his first lecture was in anatomy ³, at eleven, and about half past ten he limped across the road, and a little nervously ⁴ made his way to the Medical School. Just inside the door a number of notices were pinned up, lists of lectures, football fixtures ⁵, and the like; and these he looked at idly, trying to seem at his ease. Young men and boys dribbled ⁶ in and looked for letters in the rack, chatted with one another, and passed downstairs to the basement, in which was the student's reading-room. Philip saw several fellows with a desultory ⁷, timid look dawdling ⁸ around, and surmised ⁹ that, like himself, they were there for the first time. When he had exhausted ¹⁰ the notices he saw a glass door which led into what was apparently ¹¹ a museum, and having still twenty minutes to spare he walked in. It was a collection of pathological specimens ¹². Presently a boy of about eighteen came up to him., , ,'Yes,' answered Philip., ,'Where's the lecture room, d'you know? It's getting on for eleven.', ,I'm on the hunt for lodgings. 我正在寻找住所 。,It was a street of dingy houses huddled together. 这是一条挤满了破旧房子的街巷。