My dear Norman,
亲爱的诺曼，
I don't think I really do know much about jobs except the one I had during the war and that certainly did not involve any traveling.
我想除了在战争中的那份工作外，我对工作知之甚少，而那份工作并不需要出差。
I think they do take on conscripts.
我想他们现在还在招人。
It certainly involved a good deal of hard thinking, but whether you'd be interested I don't know.
这份工作肯定包含大量的脑力劳动，但我不知道你是否对此感兴趣。
Philip Hall was in the same racket and on the whole, I should say, he didn't care for it.
菲利普·霍尔曾经做过这份工作，但总体来说，我得说他并不喜欢。
However I am not at present in a state in which I am able to concentrate well, for reasons explained in the next paragraph.
但我现在的状态并不能让我全神贯注，原因在下一段中解释。
I've now got myself into the kind of trouble that I have always consideredto be quite a possibility for me, though I have usually rated it at about 10:1 against.
最近我惹上了个麻烦，我一直认为这事很有可能发生，尽管发生的概率很低。
I shall shortly be pleading guilty to a charge of sexual offences with a young man.
不久后我将认罪，罪名为性侵犯一名年轻男子。
