上海吴中路1500号八室住宅一栋招租。

The eight-roomed dwelling house on No. 1500, Wuzhong Road, Shanghai.

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大约八点钟时，我办公室的电话响了。

It was about eight o'clock when my office telephone rang.

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也许我对午餐、茶水间的八卦、关心、深刻和有意义的谈话的期待，是上次那种办公室环境留给我的后遗症。

Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip, and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.

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