艾里克的第一部小说最终出版了，尽管少受了一点儿压力和风暴。

Erik's first novel is at last published, though with rather less stress and storm.

当艾里克出现在技术部时，玛丽娜·克里·洛夫娜就曾经对波琳娜说：“如果我的帕白斯卡是公司的老板，我可能也会像他一样晃来晃去。”

"If my Papatchka ran the factory, maybe I'd also go around grinning like a defective," Marina Kirilovna had said to Polina when Alec appeared in the technology department.

或者菲利普和艾里克也一样愿意去相信，因为他们将自己融进文学世界以及它所有的陈词滥调中(它可能也会成为电影作品)，例如被女人甩。

Or so Phillip and Erik seem to believe, as they throw themselves into a life of literature (it might as well be cinema) with all the attendant cliches, like their disdain for (terror of) women.