"It looked to me as though I was in Dutch with destiny. It might have been the plan of Providence to chasten me, but really I had not been filled with such pride as called for a fall. I had not committed any of those speculative sins which a trader must expiate on the debtor side of the account. I was not guilty of a typical sucker play. What I had done, or, rather, what I had left undone, was something for which I would have received praise and not blame north of Forty-second Street. In Wall Street it was absurd and costly. But by far the worst thing about it was the tendency it had to make a man a little less inclined to permit himself human feelings in the ticker district."
其中有一句是 “for which I would have received praise and not blame north of Forty-second Street”。North of forty-second street 怎么译相当有讲究。在纽约的曼哈顿区，也就是华尔街的所在地, 42街之北的地方称中央公园，是全美国最贵的地区，所谓上流社会区。如果不熟悉纽约市，怎么翻译这一段英文就抓瞎了！42街之北是什么东西？