We were the only phantoms at the station, apart from the employee in overalls who sold the tickets as well as doing what in our time had required twenty or thirty hurried men.

• 车站的职员，那些卖票的，那些在我们候车的时间里必需要做点什么的二三十个匆忙的人，除了他们之外，我们是车站唯一的幻影。