The Oyster and the Pearl
牡蛎与珍珠
William Saroyan
威廉·萨罗扬
Harry Van Dusen's barber shop in O.K.-by-the-Sea, California, population 909. It's an old-fashioned shop, crowded with stuff not usually found in barber shops... Harry himself, for instance. He has never been known to put on a barber's white jacket or to work without a hat of some sort on his head.
哈里·范杜森的理发店在加利福尼亚州的“海边满意镇”，这个镇子有909人。这是一家老式的理发店，里面有不少一般理发店里不常见的东西，比如哈里这样的理发师就很少见。人们从未见过他穿理发师的白大褂，他头上还总爱戴个帽子。
On the walls, on the shelves, are many odds and ends, some apparently washed up by the sea, which is a block down the street: shells, rocks, pieces of driftwood, a life jacket, rope, sea plants. There is one old-fashioned chair.
墙壁的架子上摆放着不少小零碎，其中有些明显是海潮冲上来的东西，如贝壳、石块、浮木碎块、一件救生衣、绳子、海里的植物等等。海边离此仅有一个街区之远。店里还有一把老式的椅子。
When the play begins, Harry is seated in the chair. A boy of nine or ten named Clay Larrabee is giving him a haircut. Harry is reading a book, one of many in the shop.
帷幕拉开时，哈里正坐在理发椅上，一个九、十岁的男孩正在给他理发，他叫克莱·拉腊比。店里有很多书，哈里正读其中一本。