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As soon as2 you enter a barber’s shop， you lose your freedom.3 You are not to regain4 it till you have paid for it after a full hour’s slavery.5
Well，6 you may not wish to call it slavery. You may call it enjoyment. Many persons call it enjoyment； perhaps they enjoy slavery. Drunkards7 enjoy being slaves to drink.8 Young lovers enjoy being slaves of their sweethearts’ caprices.9 And many persons enjoy being slaves to a barber once a week！
I， for one，10 do not enjoy being a slave to a barber. As soon as I enter a barber’s shop， I feel I lose both my freedom and my dignity.11 For I have to resign12 myself， and especially that important part of myself， the head， to the control of an ignorant13 or at least ill-educated14 barber （I beg barbers’ pardon）. He turns about my head as though15 it were his own instead of mine. He sometimes offers me a newspaper as much as to say，16 “While I improve the outside of your head for you， you ought to improve its inside17 yourself ”. But in fact18， he does not care a bit19 about what is in my head. He treats my head， which contains a knowledge of English grammar， rhetoric，20 phonetics，21 literary history，22 versification，23 etc.， in the same way as any head that does not contain a single word of English.
Talking of 24 English， I wonder25 why the barbers in some fashionable shops in Shanghai often speak English — surely pidgin English26 — among themselves. But this is by the way.27
To return to28 the question of slavery. I feel my slavery more keenly as often as29 I look into the glass before me. Is it not enough to make a slave of me？ Is it necessary to remind30 me that I am a slave？
I am glad that I do not make so much of31 my hair as to require it to be shampooed32 or singed33 in a barber’s shop. I want to have my hair cut， and have it cut， that’s all. 34 Thus， if 35 I have to be a slave once every three or four weeks， my period of slavery is always a short one.
Emerging36 from a barber’s shop， I often heave a sigh of relief. 37
Notes
1. barber’s shop： 理发店
2. as soon as： 一俟
3. lose my freedom： 失去我之自由
4. are not to regain： 不可复得
5. a full hour’s slavery： 足有一小时之奴隶生活
6. well： 语气助词
7. drunkards： 酒徒
8. enjoy being slaves to drink： 以耽于狂饮为乐
9. their sweethearts’ caprices： 彼等之情人之任性
10.for one： 就我个人而言
11.dignity： 尊严
12.resign： 抛弃
13.ignorant： 无知识的
14.ill-educated： 教育不良的
15.as though： 宛如
16.as much as to say： 若曰
17.improve its inside： 改善其内部 意即增加知识）
18.in fact： 在事实上
19.does not care a bit： 毫不留意
20.rhetoric： 修辞学
21.phonetics： 语音学
22.literary history： 文学史
23.versification： 诗学
24.Talking of：今既论及……
25.wonder： 不知；不解
26.pidgin English： 洋泾浜英语 一种中国人与欧美人间所用之极不纯正之英语，“pidgin”原系“business”之转误）
27.by the way： 偶然说及
28.To return to： 回至；再说
29.as often as： 每次
30.remind： 提醒
31.make so much of： 如是重视
32.shampooed： 用洗发水洗
33. singed： 烫
34. that’s （= that is） all： 如是而已
35. if： 虽
36. Emerging： 走出
37. heave a sigh of relief： 因得安慰而叹息
【摘自《葛传椝英文随笔》，上海译文出版社2016年3月出版】
Well，6 you may not wish to call it slavery. You may call it enjoyment. Many persons call it enjoyment； perhaps they enjoy slavery. Drunkards7 enjoy being slaves to drink.8 Young lovers enjoy being slaves of their sweethearts’ caprices.9 And many persons enjoy being slaves to a barber once a week！
I， for one，10 do not enjoy being a slave to a barber. As soon as I enter a barber’s shop， I feel I lose both my freedom and my dignity.11 For I have to resign12 myself， and especially that important part of myself， the head， to the control of an ignorant13 or at least ill-educated14 barber （I beg barbers’ pardon）. He turns about my head as though15 it were his own instead of mine. He sometimes offers me a newspaper as much as to say，16 “While I improve the outside of your head for you， you ought to improve its inside17 yourself ”. But in fact18， he does not care a bit19 about what is in my head. He treats my head， which contains a knowledge of English grammar， rhetoric，20 phonetics，21 literary history，22 versification，23 etc.， in the same way as any head that does not contain a single word of English.
Talking of 24 English， I wonder25 why the barbers in some fashionable shops in Shanghai often speak English — surely pidgin English26 — among themselves. But this is by the way.27
To return to28 the question of slavery. I feel my slavery more keenly as often as29 I look into the glass before me. Is it not enough to make a slave of me？ Is it necessary to remind30 me that I am a slave？
I am glad that I do not make so much of31 my hair as to require it to be shampooed32 or singed33 in a barber’s shop. I want to have my hair cut， and have it cut， that’s all. 34 Thus， if 35 I have to be a slave once every three or four weeks， my period of slavery is always a short one.
Emerging36 from a barber’s shop， I often heave a sigh of relief. 37
Notes
1. barber’s shop： 理发店
2. as soon as： 一俟
3. lose my freedom： 失去我之自由
4. are not to regain： 不可复得
5. a full hour’s slavery： 足有一小时之奴隶生活
6. well： 语气助词
7. drunkards： 酒徒
8. enjoy being slaves to drink： 以耽于狂饮为乐
9. their sweethearts’ caprices： 彼等之情人之任性
10.for one： 就我个人而言
11.dignity： 尊严
12.resign： 抛弃
13.ignorant： 无知识的
14.ill-educated： 教育不良的
15.as though： 宛如
16.as much as to say： 若曰
17.improve its inside： 改善其内部 意即增加知识）
18.in fact： 在事实上
19.does not care a bit： 毫不留意
20.rhetoric： 修辞学
21.phonetics： 语音学
22.literary history： 文学史
23.versification： 诗学
24.Talking of：今既论及……
25.wonder： 不知；不解
26.pidgin English： 洋泾浜英语 一种中国人与欧美人间所用之极不纯正之英语，“pidgin”原系“business”之转误）
27.by the way： 偶然说及
28.To return to： 回至；再说
29.as often as： 每次
30.remind： 提醒
31.make so much of： 如是重视
32.shampooed： 用洗发水洗
33. singed： 烫
34. that’s （= that is） all： 如是而已
35. if： 虽
36. Emerging： 走出
37. heave a sigh of relief： 因得安慰而叹息
【摘自《葛传椝英文随笔》，上海译文出版社2016年3月出版】