为了之后获得了一份更好的工作，成为一名法庭速记员和国会记者，他自学了速记。
He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament.
从15岁后，他一直盘桓于似乎更加合理的选择：从法律工作员到法庭和议会的速记记者，然后转向新闻，在剧院里有了追求。
Since the age of 15, he had been racing through more plausible alternatives: from legal clerk, to courtroom and parliamentary shorthand reporter, then on to journalism and ambitions in the theatre.
记者用速记记下了他的讲演。
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