68.Dorm Food
68.食堂的伙食
Nothing brings a student down-to-earth like dorm food!
没有什么能像食堂伙食那样让学生从幻想中清醒过来!
I remember eating some slop one time that was dotted with purple polka dots!
我记得有一次吃过一些半流汁食物,上面点缀着紫色的斑斑点点!
Really! I should have known that I would come down with a bug from it afterwards.
是真的!我早该知道吃完之后会生病的。
I threw up all over my down jacket and spent the next few days laid up in my dorm room!
结果吐得羽绒服上到处都是,接下来的几天只能在宿舍的房间里躺着!
My dorm supervisor thought I was faking.
宿舍管理员还以为我是在装病。
He thought I stayed in bed because I was down on my luck with women.
他认为我躺在床上是因为被女人甩了而感到沮丧。
That helped a lot when he said that... it sent me even further down in the dumps.
他那样说还真管用……他的话使我更加闷闷不乐起来。
As I lay in bed those days, down in the mouth, however, I came up with a draft plan for keeping my emotions from going further down the drain!
可是,就在那些天我躺在床上、垂头丧气的时候,我制订出了一个草案,不让自己浪费更多的感情!
I would start a petition to improve dorm food!
我要开始正式请求改善食堂伙食!
There was nothing else to waste time on!
我没有别的事情可浪费时间!
No girlfriend! Studies were light this semester!
没有女朋友!这个学期的学习也很轻松!
I dozed off each night dreaming of my revenge!
每天晚上我都会打盹儿,梦见我在复仇!
When I recovered from being so down and out I put my plan into action.
等到我从衰弱无力中恢复过来,我便开始实施我的计划。
It was fun. I put up signs, talked to new people, and made a lot of chaos.
这样做很有意思。我贴标语,找人谈话、制造了许多混乱。
I attracted all the down-to-earth people also interested in having better food in the dorms.
我吸引了所有那些很现实的人, 他们也对改进食堂伙食感兴趣。
One hippy girl made me double back after I passed her.
从一个丰满女孩身边走过之后,我又循原路折回。
How could hippy girls look so good?
臀部丰满的女孩怎么会看上去那么有魅力?
We started dating several days later.
几天之后我们开始约会了。
Needless to say, that was also the end of my fix-dorm-food campaign.
不用说,我的改善食堂伙食运动也就此结束了。
Dorm food still sucks! I think it always will.
食堂伙食还是那么让人恶心,我想它会永远让人恶心。