当时他的本职是任英美两家报纸驻北平的记者。
He was then a reporter for two foreign newspapers in Peiping, owned respectively by Britons and Americans.
一九三三至 一九三五年间，他应聘在燕京大学新闻系兼了课。
From 1933 to 1935, he was concurrently a teacher at the Journalism Department of Yenching University.
斯诺仅仅在燕大教 了这两年书，而我恰好就在那两年由辅仁大学的英文系转到了燕京大 学的新闻系。
During the two years when he was with this University, Ihappened to be a student there, having previously transferred from the English Department of Catholic University in Peiping.
我毕业后，他也辞去这个兼差，去了延安并写出他的杰 作《红星照耀中国》--即《西行漫记》。
Upon my graduation, he resigned the concurrent job and went Yan'an where he Wrote his masterpiece Red Star Over China.
而且，大都是先生讲，学生听。
More often than not, they did all the talking while the students did nothing listen.
课堂上轻易听不见什么 讨论。
There was practically no classroom discussion at all.
斯诺则不然。
Snow, however, did otherwise.
他着重讲实践，鼓励讨论。
He gave priority to practice and encouraged discussion.
更重要的是，他是通 过和同学们交朋友的方式来进行教学。
And more importantly, he did teaching by way of making friends with hiis students.
除了课堂，对我们更具吸引力 的，是他在海淀住宅的那座客厅。
We found the reception room in his Haidian residence more appealing than the classroom.
他和海伦都极好客，他们时常举行 茶会或便餐，平时大门也总是敞着的0。
He and his wife Helen were very hospitable and often entertained us with tea or potluck.
一九三五年春天，正是在他 那客厅里，我第一次见到了史沫特菜。
In the spring of 1935, it was in that reception room that I met Agnes Smedley\* for the first time.
斯诺约我去吃晚饭时，就介 绍她作〝布朗太太"。
So, the evening when I had dinner at Snow's residence, he introduced her to me as "Mrs.
其实我并不知道坐在我旁边的就 是那本书的作者。
Brown." As it happened that was then reading her novel Daughter of Earth, I kept talking at table about my impressions of it, not knowing that the very lady sitting next to me was author.
及至史沫特莱离平返沪后，斯诺才告诉我，那晚我 可把史沫特莱窘坏了。
It was not until Smedley had left Peiping for Shanghai that Snow told me how apprehensive she had been that evening when I chatted about the novel, suspecting that I already knew her true identity.
在读新闻系时，我有个思想问题：我并不喜欢新闻系，特别是广告 学那样的课，简直听不进去。
While at Yenching University, had a problem weighing on my mind: I found the study of journalism not to my liking and the advertising course particularly boring.
我只是为了取得个记者资格才转系的。
Frankly, I had transferred myself to the journalism department of Yenching for the sole purpose of obtaining qualifications for a reporter.
我的心仍在文学系--因此，常旷了新闻系的课去英文系旁听。
Now, with my heart in literature, \| often cut journalism classes so as to sit in on English literature classes.
斯 诺帮我解决了这个矛盾。
Snow helped me solve this problem.
他认为一个新闻记者写的是现实生活，但他必须有文学修养一 包括古典文学修养。
He told me that instead of being contradictory to each other, literature and journalism were mutually complementary and that in order to write stories of real life, a newsman must be cultured in literature, including classical literature.
我毕业那天，他和海伦送了我满满一皮箱的世界 文学名著，由亚里士多德至狄更斯。
On my commencement day, he and Helen me a suitcaseful of world literary classics, ranging from Aristotle to Dickens.
他去世后，我从露易丝．斯诺的 书中知道，他临终时，枕边还放着萧伯纳的著作。
Later I learned that when he was on his deathbed, a copy of Bernard Shaw's work had been found lying by his pillow.
Am greatly indebted to Snow for his teachings that literary taste is a must for a reporter's news dispatches and feature articles.
一九三六年当他晓得我给《大公报》所写的冯玉祥访问记被国民 党检查官欣得面目皆非--冯将军的抗日主张全部被砍掉了，他立即 要我介绍他去访问这位将军--不出几天，我就在报上看到日本政府 向南京抗议说，身居军事委员会副委员长的冯玉祥，竟然向美国记者 斯诺发表了不友好的谈话。
A few days later, I found in the newspapers that the Japanese government had protested to the KMT government about Feng Yu-xiang (1882---1948), renowned Chinese general and patriot.
The unfriendly remarks from Military Commission Vice-Chairman Feng Yu-xiang in an interview with the American reporter Snow.
一九四四年，我们又在刚刚解放的巴黎见了面。
In 1944, Snow and I met again, this time in Paris shortly after its lberation.