With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer, but at the time it felt like the job was to kind of bore me into some submission with what was going on around me.
事后看来，现在我知道这种教育 是让我成为一个职员或技工作准备， 但与此同时我也觉得这种教育 让我卷入到了无尽的厌烦之中。