英语原文

About 25 years ago, I worked as an orderly on the overnight shift in a South Carolina hospital to put myself through school. The building we were in at the time was one of those WPA jobs from the Roosevelt era, and even though it was small and somewhat outmoded, it had been the only place for emergency services in our county for more than 40 years. But at the time this incident I’m writing about happened, a new, state-of-the-art hospital had just been finished a few miles down the highway, and while we weren’t completely out of the picture, a lot of our services, including the emergency room, had been shifted to that site.
　　Like I say, I was working my way through school at the time, and my shift generally ran weeknights from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. There wasn’t a whole lot to do after midnight, so sometimes after the shift supervisor had run out of creative ideas for make-work, and assuming our remaining patients were quiet and settled in for the night, she’d let me “relax” with my schoolwork in the employee lounge during the quiet of the wee hours.
　　The lounge was right next to the second floor nurses’ station.

中文翻译　

　　大约25年前，我在南卡罗莱娜的一家医院做夜间护理员来挣学费。当时医院大楼虽然又小又过时，但却是由罗斯福时期的公共事业振兴署所建。40多年来，这是整个镇上唯一能接收急诊的地方。我要讲述的这件事发生前不久，沿公路几英里远的地方刚建成一所崭新的现代化医院，不过，我们服务和设施并没有完全被弃用，我们这里包括急诊室在内的许多部门都已经搬到新医院了。

　　我说过，当时我正勤工俭学，所以我一般多是在周日晚上十点工作到第二天早上六点。午夜过后的工作不多，因此假如住院病人都平静无事的上床休息了，而主管也再想不出什么可做的事了，那么她也会让我在寂静的凌晨在员工休息室里“放松得”做我的作业。员工休息室在二楼，紧挨着护士站。