translation.en: and going heavily down to the cellar, to the furnace, to shake out the ashes and damp the draft before he came upstairs to fall into bed -- in those long-ago days, women, my mother, my friends' mothers, our neighbors, all the women I knew -- wore, often much of the day, what were called housedresses, cheap, printed, pulpy, seemingly purposefully shapeless light cotton shifts that you wore over your nightgown
translation.zh: 他进入地窖，走向火炉旁 弄出死灰，熄灭火种 然后才上床睡觉 在这段长长的时间里 女人，母亲，朋友的母亲 我的邻居，我知道的所有女性 她们的穿着，与那个时代相符 被我们称作是家居服的 廉价的印染与质料 似乎是刻意的貌不惊人 在晚上才会穿轻质棉