开头他还以为那工作很惬意呢，可实际上很乏味。 At the first go-off he thought the work was delightful but it turned out to be boring.
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.
