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nigger heaven 〔美俚〕(戲院等的)頂層樓座。

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He found that the newspaper storiette should never be tragic , should never end unhappily , and should never contain beauty of language , subtlety of thought , nor real delicacy of sentiment . sentiment it must contain , plenty of it , pure and noble , of the sort that in his own early youth had brought his applause from “ nigger heaven “ - the “ for - god - my - country - and - the - czar “ and “ i - may - be - poor - but - i - am - honest “ brand of sentiment 他發現報紙小故事不能是悲劇,必須有大團圓結局語言不必美,思想不必細致,感情也不必微妙,但一定要有感情,而且要豐富,要純潔高貴,要是他少年時在劇院廉價座位上為之大喝其彩的那種感情那種“為了上帝祖國和國王”的感情, “窮歸窮,要窮得志氣”的感情。

Why , thirty thousand , lump sum , wouldn t buy for him right now what ten cents he was layin up would have bought him , when he was a kid , in the way of candy an peanuts or a seat in nigger heaven . 整整三萬塊能為他買到的東西還抵不上他年青時儲蓄的一毛錢所能買到的。比如糖果花生或是頂樓座位的一張戲票。 ”

Martin skipped on through the years to the night in the nigger heaven at the auditorium 馬丁跨過了許多年來到了奧狄多林戲院樓座的那天夜里。