Betty started as a shipping clerk at the clothes factory.

贝蒂以做这家服装厂的运务员开始职业生涯。

He'd lost his job as a shipping clerk and he had broken his leg chasing a black cat to keep it from crossing his path.

他这份船运员的工作也丢了，他还在追赶一只黑猫以便不让它横穿他的小路时摔断了腿。

Cheng’s road to Beijing began in central China’s Hubei province, a bleak industrial region, where her father worked as a shipping clerk and her mother toiled in a tire factory.

那是一个阴冷荒凉的工业区。 她的父亲是一家运输公司的职员，母亲则在一家轮胎工厂工作。

Within a week his wife had run away with another man; he'd lost his job as a shipping clerk and he had broken his leg chasing a black cat to keep it from crossing his path.

在一周之内，他的妻子与另一个男人私奔，他的运输员工作也丢了，而他的腿又在一次与一只黑猫的追逐中摔断了，仅仅是为了不让这只猫从他面前经过①。

Within a week his wife had run away with another man, he'd lost his job as a shipping clerk and he had broken his leg chasing a black cat to keep it from crossing his path.

在一个星期内，她的妻子和别的男人跑了，他失去了货务员的工作，并且在追逐一只从他面前经过的黑猫时摔破了腿。