Worn (v.磨損（wear的過去分詞）) with pain, and weak from the prolonged ( /pro’lɔŋd/ adj.持續很久的)
hardships ( /'hɑrdʃɪp/ n.苦難) which I had undergone(經歷), I was removed, with a great train of wounded
（/'wundɪd/n.傷員） sufferers （/'sʌfərɚ/ n. 患者）, to the base hospital at Peshawar. Here I rallied
（rally美 /'ræli/vi.恢復；）, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards
（n. [醫] 病房（ward的複數））, and even to bask（曬太陽） a little upon the veranda（ /və’rændə/n. 走廊）, when I was struck （ /strʌk/v.打擊（strike的過去式和過去分詞）） down by enteric（ /en’terik/adj. 腸的） fever（n. 發燒，發熱；狂熱）, that curse（詛咒；咒罵） of our Indian possessions.（ /pə’zeʃənz/n. [經] 財產；所有物） For months my life was despaired（絕望，喪失信心） of, and when at last I came to myself and became convalescent（/,kɑnvə’lɛsnt/ adj. 康復的）, I was so weak and emaciated（ /ɪ’meʃɪ’etɪd/ adj. 瘦弱的；憔悴的） that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to England.
創痛使我形銷骨立，再加上長期的輾轉勞頓，使我更加虛弱不堪。於是我就和一大批傷員一起，被送到了波 舒爾的後方醫院。在那裏，我的健康狀況大大好轉起來，可是當我已經能夠在病房中稍稍走動，甚至還能在走 廊上曬一會兒太陽的時候，我又病倒了，染上了我們印度屬地的那種倒黴疫症——傷寒。有好幾個月，我都是 昏迷不醒，奄奄一息。最後我終於恢復了神智，逐漸痊癒起來。但是病後我的身體十分虛弱、憔悴，因此經過 醫生會診後，決定立即將我送回英國，一天也不許耽擱。
I was despatched(派遣；發送),accordingly(adv. 因此), in the troopship( /'trupʃɪp/n. 運兵艦) Orontes(特斯河), and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health irretrievably(/iri’tri:vəbli/adv. 不能挽回地) ruined /'ruɪnd/adj. 毀滅的), but with permission from a paternal government to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.
一個月以後，我便在普次茅斯的碼頭登岸了。那時，我的健康已是糟糕透了，幾乎達到難以恢復的地步。但是，好心的政府給了我九個月的假期，使我將養身體。
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air–or as free as an income of eleven shillings( /'ʃɪlɪŋ/n. 先令) and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances(環境) I naturally gravitated( /'ɡrævɪtet/ vi.被吸引) to London, that great cesspool( /'sɛs,pʊl/ n.污穢場所) into which all the loungers(/'laundʒə/n. 閒蕩的人；懶人) and idlers of the Empire(帝國) are irresistibly( /ɪrə’zɪstəbli/adv. 無法抵抗地) drained(流乾). There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought( 應該). So alarming did the state of my finances(n. 資產；財源) become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis( /mə’trɑpəlɪs/n. 大都市) and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration( /,ɔltə’reʃən/n.改變) in my style of living. Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and take up my quarters in some less pretentious(/prɪ’tɛnʃəs/ adj. 自命不凡的) and less expensive domicile.
我在英國無親無友，所以就象空氣一樣的自由；或者說是象一個每天收入十一先令六便士的人那樣逍遙自在。在這種情況下，我很自然地就被吸引進倫敦這個大污水坑裏去，大英帝國所有的遊民懶漢也都是彙集到這裏來的。我在倫敦河濱馬路上的一家公寓裏住了一些時候，過着既不舒適又非常無聊的生活，錢一到手就花光了，大大地超過了我所能負擔的開支，因此我的經濟情況變得非常恐慌起來。我不久就看了出來：我必須離開這個大都市移居到鄉下去；要不就得徹底改變我的生活方式。我選定了後一個辦法，決心離開這家公寓，另找一個不太奢侈而又化費不大的住處。