9 “It takes all kinds to make the world。”
10 “I always said it did myself。”
11 The girl was used to this kind of dialogue for breakfast and more of it fordinnersometimes they had it for supper too。When they had no guest they ate in the kitchen because that was easier。Mrs。Freeman always managed to arrive at some point during the meal and to watch them finish it。She would stand in the doorway if it were summer but in the winter she would stand with one elbow on topof the refrigerator and look down at them，or she would stand by the gas heater，lifting the back of her skirt slightly。Occasionally she would stand against the wall and roll her head from side to side。At no time was she in any hurry to leave。All this was very trying on Mrs。Hopewell but she was a woman of great patience。She realized that nothing is perfect and that in the Freemans she had good country people and that if，in this day and age，you get good country people，you had better hang onto them。
12 She had had plenty of experience with trash。Before the Freemans she hadaveraged one tenant family a year。The wives of these farmers werenot the kind you would want to be around you for very long。Mrs。Hopewell，who had divorced herhusband long ago，needed someone to walk over the fields with herand when Joyhad to be impressed for these services，her remarks were usually so ugly and her face so glum that Mrs。Hopewell would say，“If you can’t come pleasantly，I don’t want you at all，”to which the girl，standing square and rigid-shouldered with her neck thrust slightly forward，would reply，“If you want me，here I am—LIKE I AM。”
13 Mrs。Hopewell excused this attitude because of the leg（which had been shotoff in a hunting accident when Joy was ten）。It was hard for Mrs。Hopewell to realize that her child was thirty-two now and that for more than twenty years shehad had only one leg。She thought of her still as a child because it tore her heart to think instead of the poor stout girl in her thirties whohad never danced a step or had any normal good times。Her name was really Joy but as soon as she was twenty-one and away from home，she had had it legally changed。Mrs。Hopewell was certain that she had thought and thought until she had hit upon the ugliest name in any language。Then she had gone and had the beautiful name，Joy，changed without telling her mother until after she had done it。Her legal name was Hulga。
at some point：在某個時刻
at no time：絕不，在任何時候都不
try on sb。：考驗
hang onto：緊握
tenant：n。佃戶，房客
impress：v。給予強烈的影響
glum：adj。陰鬱的
thrust：vi。探出
stout：adj。矮胖的
hit upon：無意中遇見14When Mrs。Hopewell thought the name，Hulga，she thought of the broad blank hull of a battleship。She would not use it。She continued to call her Joy to which the girl responded but in a purely mechanical way。
15 Hulga had learned to tolerate Mrs。Freeman who saved her from taking walks with her mother。Even Glynese and Carramae were useful when they occupied attention that might otherwise have been directed at her。At first she had thought shecould not stand Mrs。Freeman for she had found it was not possible to be rude to her。Mrs。Freeman would take on strange resentments and for days together she would be sullen but the source of her displeasure was always obscurea direct attack，a positive leer，blatant ugliness to her face—these never touched her。And without warning one day，she began calling her Hulga。
16 She did not call her that in front of Mrs。Hopewell who would have been incensed but when she and the girl happened to be out of the house together，she would say something and add the name Hulga to the end of it，and the big spectacled Joy—Hulga would scowl and redden as if her privacy had been intruded upon。Sheconsidered the name her personal affair。She had arrived at it first purely on the basis of its ugly sound and then the full genius of its fitness had struck her。She had a vision of the name working like the ugly sweating Vulcan who stayed in the furnace and to whom，presumably，the goddess had to come when called。She saw it as the name of her highest creative act。One of her major triumphs wasthat her mother had not been able to turn her dust into Joy，but the greater one was that she had been able to turn it herself into Hulga。However，Mrs。Freeman’s relish for using the name only irritated her。It was as if Mrs。Freeman’s beady steel-pointed eyes had penetrated far enough behind her face to reach somesecret fact。Something about her seemed to fascinate Mrs。Freeman and then one day Hulga realized that it was the artificial leg。Mrs。Freeman had a special fondness for the details of secret infections，hidden deformities，assaults upon children。Of diseases，she preferred the lingering or incurable。Hulga had heard Mrs。Hopewell give her the details of the hunting accident，how the leg had beenliterally blasted off，how she had never lost consciousness。Mrs。Freeman couldlisten to it any time as if it had happened an hour ago。
評注：喬伊之所以把自己的名字改成赫爾格是因為她認為這個名字昭示了她外表的醜陋，但卻反襯出她的智慧。第16段中，喬伊把自己與希臘神話中醜陋跛腳的火神Vulcan（伏爾甘，火神因醜陋而被賦予了醜陋的名字）相比，因為火神雖然醜陋卻極具創造力。故事中的人物在某種程度上來說都是弱者，但卻拚命地把自己武裝成強者，結果造成自己內心的扭曲。
hull：n。船體
save sb。from：使某人免於……
resentment：n。不滿，憤恨
sullen：adj。繃著臉不高興的
obscure：adj。不清楚的
leer：n。斜眼看，睨視
blatant：adj。公開的
incense：vt。激怒
scowl：vi。露出不悅之色
intrude：vi。侵擾
presumably：adv。大概
triumph：n。勝利
her mother had not been able to turn her dust into Joy：她的媽媽沒法使她這具軀體化為歡樂。dust在這裏的意思是指人的軀體、肉體；Joy是她的名字，意思是“歡樂”。
relish：n。興趣，喜歡
irritate：vt。激怒
penetrate：vt。穿過
artificial leg：假腿
infection：n。傳染病
deformity：n。畸形，殘廢
assault upon：猛烈而突然地攻擊
lingering：adj。拖延的，依依不舍的；the lingering，這裏是纏綿的疾病
blast off：炸毀17When Hulga stumped into the kitchen in the morning（she could walk without making the awful noise but she made it—Mrs。Hopewell was certain—because it was ugly-sounding），she glanced at them and did not speak。Mrs。Hopewell wouldbe in her red kimono with her hair tied around her head in rags。She would be sitting at the table，finishing her breakfast and Mrs。Freeman would be hanging by her elbow outward from the refrigerator，looking down at the table。Hulga always put her eggs on the stove to boil and then stood over them with her arms folded，and Mrs。Hopewell would look at her—a kind of indirect gaze divided between her and Mrs。Freeman—and would think that if she would only keep herself up a little，she wouldn’t be so bad looking。There was nothing wrong with her face that a pleasant expression wouldn’t help。Mrs。Hopewell said that people wholooked on the bright side of things would be beautiful even if they were not。