She didn't know what to expect, but the simplicity surprised her: no receptionist, no outer office, no sign of a laboratory.

她不清楚房内会是怎般模样，可摆设的简单朴素还是让她诧异不已：没有前台接待员，没有招待室，没有实验室的门牌。

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Instead of going straight into the adjoining room, where her desk was, she lingered, slightly irresolute, in the outer office.

她没有直接到放有她办公桌的里间办公室去，而是滞留在外间办公室，有点儿拿不定主意似的。

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A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the President's outer office.

老妇人身穿褪色条纹棉衣，与穿着土布西服的丈夫在波士顿站下了火车，神情忐忑地走向校长的外间办公室。

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