例如以下這段便看得我一頭霧水：
On weekends, now and then, I stay in a guest room in my father’s townhouse, with kitchen privileges. The young man who deals with these matters, one of the corporate effigies, discusses details in the contemporary pattern of declarative sentences that slither gradually upward into questions.
HC匆筆：我猜
這Townhouse可能類似沒有專用廚房的appartmen
梁兄：
HC：那，廚房設備特別多多。
譯文有可取處，會部分挪用。
但男主角老爸的townhouse（與隔壁house連棟的house)是有廚房的。the young man應是他死去老爸（公司大老闆）的員工。
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Everybody wants to own the end of the world.
This is what my father said, standing by the contoured windows in his
New York office -- private wealth management, dynasty trusts, emerging markets.
HC匆筆：我猜
"contoured windows" 或許指由工廠"成行"的窗---配合其他考量的特製窗。
人人都希望直到世界末日，自己還是贏家。
老爸的公司經營的主要項目是：私人理財、
HOWARD：下圖歸納， "contoured windows" 好像是方格狀的窗格
應該是格狀窗沒錯
可譯 "花格窗"
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窗格可分兩種：flat是平框、contoured是凸(立體)
Grid Options
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