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
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