" Sure, I understand, " said the night clerk with comfortable tact; " been that way myself" .

“当然，我明白了，”夜班服务员机智得体地说。 “我自己就是这样”。

There was a desk and a night clerk with one of those mustaches that get stuck under your fingernail.

有一张桌子和一个夜班服务员， 胡子会卡在指甲下。

He was as spruce and trim, and alert and smooth-shaven as only a night clerk can be after a night's vigil.

他像云杉一样整洁， 警觉且刮得光溜溜的， 只有夜间守夜后才能做到这一点。

Late one night they arrived in Santa Barbara, where the night clerk at the Hotel Lafcadio refused to admit them, on the grounds that they were not married.

一天深夜，他们抵达圣巴巴拉，拉夫卡迪奥酒店的夜班服务员以他们未婚为由拒绝接纳他们。

Between thumb and finger the night clerk held a wet pen with the threat of a weapon; one of the bell-boys had seized a telephone directory and was looking at it sheepishly.

夜班服务员用拇指和食指握着一支湿笔，威胁要拿武器；一个服务生抓起一本电话簿，不好意思地看着它。