The shabby flats, the unpaid bills, the senseless, all pervading sickness in the boom city of fat America began to depress Bethune.

• 在富庶的美国的这个新兴城市里，破烂的小公寓房子，欠付的帐单，莫名其妙地普遍患有的疾病，开始使白求恩忧闷起来。