Little Dorrit

I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years.

我在这两年多的工作时间里一直在忙于这个故事。

If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, I would seek it in the common experience of an Englishman.

如果我必须为像巴纳克尔和官僚主义办公室这样的夸张虚构道歉，我会在英国人的共同经历中寻找。