16.ONE day in the first week of January Martini, who had sent round the forms of invitation to the monthly group-meeting of the literary committee, received from the Gadfly a laconic, pencil-scrawled " Very sorry: can't come" .
一月第一周的一天,马蒂尼已将参加文学委员会月度小组会议的邀请函寄了出去,他收到了牛虻寄来的一封简洁的铅笔潦草的“非常抱歉:不能来”。机翻