If things weren't working out by the end of the summer he'd fire me and I go back to Stanford for business school, that didn't sound too terrible.

如果不行的话，他就炒了我呗,我还可以会斯坦福继续读商科，这听起来又不会太差。

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But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.

然而突然，糟糕得很，我崇拜的那副美好的裸体,投入了台灯下一双男人赤膊的肩膀，他穿着内衣裤,读着报纸，靠在敞开的窗边，沉浸在,炎热，潮湿，绝望的夏夜里。

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