mrknowall原文如下：
I was prepared to dislike Max Kelada even before I knew him. The war had just finished and the passenger traffic in the ocean-going liners was heavy. Accommodation was very hard to get and you had to put up with whatever the agents chose to offer you.
You could not hope for a cabin to yourself and I was thankful to be given one in which there were only two berths. But when I was told the name of my companion my heart sank.
It suggested closed portholes and the night air rigidly excluded. It was bad enough to share a cabin for fourteen days with anyone (I was going from San Francisco to Yokohama, but I should have looked upon it with less dismay if my fellow passenger`s name had been Smith or Brown.
mrknowall的翻译如下：
我甚至在认识马克斯·凯拉达之前就已经准备好不喜欢他了。战争刚刚结束，远洋班轮的客运量很大。住宿很难得到，你必须忍受代理商选择为你提供的一切。
你不能指望有一个属于自己的小屋，我很感激能得到一个只有两个泊位的小屋。但是当我被告知我同伴的名字时，我的心沉了下去。它建议关闭舷窗，严格排除夜间空气。
与任何人共用一间小屋十四天已经够糟糕的了（我从旧金山去横滨，但如果我的同伴的名字是史密斯或布朗，我应该不那么沮丧地看着它。