Exercise 14

Looking for Work(Continued)
这一淋可糟了!晚上发高烧,一会儿热,一会儿冷!脸上红的像抹了胭脂,周身疼,连翻身都疼,疼得像针扎!我想起来了:我人小,排队时常常被人挤出来,有些人又常常故意捣乱,工头举起鞭子就打,常常因为打别人而捎带上我。人多呀!一鞭子抽下来一大片,被捎上了背上就是一条子青一条子紫的。这一病,发现被工头抽在身上的伤了!可疼坏了我了!可是幸亏这回只病了一夜,第二天早晨就退烧了,穿上带着号的衣服就赶快去上工了,虽然浑身酸软,可是不干活不行呀!晚上还得唱戏,一大家人都指着爸爸和我两个人挣钱吃饭呀!

They drenching nearly did for me! That evening I ran a fever, burning hot one moment and icy cold the next. My face was as red as if roughed, my whole body ached, and turning over in bed hurt like being needled! I remembered: Because I’m young, people often jostle me out of queue; and when some of them make trouble and the foreman whips them, he often lashes me too. In that crowd his whip falls on a whole lot of people, and it leaves blue and purple welts on your back. Now that I was ill I discovered the welts from his whip ----they hurt so badly. But luckily I was only feverish one night, the next morning I felt well enough to put on my gown with the number and go to work. Though I still ached all over, I had to work.. And that evening I had to act. The whole family looked to Father and me for food.
我在东Ya毛纺织厂当小工,那些女工大姐姐们都喜欢我,都说我好,她们知道我是演员,要我教她们唱,她们就教我织毛线,还把工厂里印的毛线花样的书送给我。从那以后我学会了很多毛衣花样,成了织毛衣的能手。
All the older women in the East Asia Woollen Mill liked me and spoke well of me. Knowing that I was an actress they asked me to teach them to sing, and in turn they taught me to knit and gave me a book of patterns printed by the mill. After that I learn to knit sweaters of many kinds, acquiring a new skill.
全国jiefang以后,我在我们自己的剧团,中国评剧院工作了,我还是经常打毛衣;剧院里很多女演员学会打毛衣,大都是我教她们的。三十年来,我爱人和孩子们身上穿的毛衣都是我织的,这都是我从东ya毛纺织厂学来的。
playing in Liu Qiaoer, in which the heroine spins.