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The university informed me that before I could return I had to be cleared by their doctor.
大学通知我，我返校前需经校医批准。
He picked up a folder and said, "You aren't going to be so taken up with your music, are you?"
校医拿起一个文件夹，说道：“你不会忙着搞音乐，是吧？”
The question was probably one of their tricks, to test my sanity.
这个问题大概是他们的第一个把戏，是要考察我的精神是否正常。
He spoke again, saying that I ought to go out in the world and "meet the common man."
他又说，我应该到外面的世界走一走，“见一见普通人”。
I was silent.
我没有吭声，
I had seen the common man...
心想，我可见过普通人……
his guts spilled in a road, his limbs strewn in a field.
他的肠子流到了路上，肢体被抛撒到田地里。
The doctor told me that he could not recommend my returning to the college.
校医告诉我，他不会推荐我回到大学学习。
It was only on the way home that I realized that he had been looking at the wrong folder.
在我回家的途中，我才意识到，他一直在看着别人的病例，不是我的。
So I looked for work and found it as a copyboy on a newspaper.
于是，我便开始寻找工作，在一家报社找到一份抄抄写写的工作。
If I stayed with it, I might someday be a reporter.
如果我干下去，也许有一天会成为一名记者。
But this didn't appeal to me.
但是我对这种工作不感兴趣。
I didn't have the fascination with gossip that a reporter needs to have—
我并不热衷于社会花边新闻，而这是作为一名记者所必须具备的条件——
whether it is about a quarrel between nations or about a politician and his mistress.
不管是有关国家之间的争端，还是关于某个政客和他的情妇的花边新闻，记者都要感兴趣。
Then I worked for an import-export firm.
随后，我为一家进出口公司工作，
But this too did not appeal to me;
可这份工作也吸引不了我；
to succeed in this kind of business you have to think about the money you can make, and I preferred to think about other things.
要是想在这种事业上取得成功，你要会算计能赚多少钱，我宁愿想些其他的事情。
