Walk into a restaurant and the waitresses might yell out "Hi hon,how you doin'?"

VOA: special.2011.03.07

This is where Richard is talking about the waitresses, the white waitresses he works with in the restaurant in Chicago.

理查那些女招待以及和他一起，在芝加哥餐厅工作的那些白人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is what he says about them about three quarters of the way down the page: During my lunch hour, which I spent on a bench in a nearby park, the waitresses would come and sit beside me talking at random, laughing, joking, smoking cigarettes.

理查在文中,是这样说的：,“我坐在附近公园的长椅上吃午餐，那些女服务生,会坐过来和我谈笑风生。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And that's why he's interested in the emotions of these waitresses.

他对女侍的情绪感兴趣。

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