" About the secretaryship? (Sit down.) Is that really serious" ?

“关于秘书职位？（坐下。）那真的很严重” ？

A secretaryship or a job in the post office.

在邮局担任秘书或工作。

It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretaryship.

正因为如此， 我放弃了新闻工作，转而从事更乏味的工作：辅导和私人秘书。

But, after all, one must earn enough to pay for the garret; and I confess that to grow old as a private tutor—or a 'private' anything—is almost as chilling to the imagination as a second secretaryship at Bucharest.

但是，毕竟，一个人必须赚到足够的钱来支付阁楼的费用；我承认，当私人教师——或任何“私人” 的任何东西——变老几乎和在布加勒斯特担任第二任秘书一样令人不寒而栗。