那家人为寻找更好的工作离开家乡,运气却更糟。 It fared worse with the family who left their hometown in search of better jobs.
第二年,通过一个老朋友帮忙,他在一家出版公司谋到一个职位,薪水虽不高,却更令他感到惬意。 In the next year he obtained, through the good offices of an old friend, a post with a publishing firm which, though not highly paid, he found more congenial.