"It is excellent how you're able to write," the merchant praised him. "Many a thing we will still have to discuss with one another. For today, I'm asking you to be my guest and to live in this house." "写得真好。"商人夸奖道，"有好多事咱们以后再互相切磋吧。今天，我邀请你做我的客人，并且在我这房子里留宿。" Siddhartha thanked and accepted, and lived in the dealers house from now on. Clothes were brought to him, and shoes, and every day, a servant prepared a bath for him. Twice a day, a plentiful meal was served, but Siddhartha only ate once a day, and ate neither meat nor did he drink wine. Kamaswami told him about his trade, showed him the merchandise and storage-rooms, showed him calculations. Siddhartha got to know many new things, he heard a lot and spoke little. And thinking of Kamala's words, he was never subservient to the merchant, forced him to treat him as an equal, yes even more than an equal. Kamaswami conducted his business with care and often with passion, but Siddhartha looked upon all of this as if it was a game, the rules of which he tried hard to learn precisely, but the contents of which did not touch his heart. 席特哈尔塔道过谢接受了邀请，并且从此在商人家里住下了。有人给他送来了衣服，还有鞋，一个仆人每天伺候他洗澡。白天有两餐丰盛的饭菜，但席特哈尔塔只吃一餐，而且不吃肉也不喝酒。卡马斯瓦密给他讲自己的生意，给他看货物和仓库，还教他算帐。席特哈尔塔学会了很多新东西，但是他听得多说得少。他牢记卡玛拉的话，从来不对商人低声下气，迫使他对自己平等相待，甚至超过了平等相待。卡马斯瓦密小心谨慎地经营他的生意，往往投入极大的热情，而席特哈尔塔却把这一切视为游戏，他努力学会准确掌握游戏的规则，但游戏的内容却并不使他动心。 He was not in Kamaswami's house for long, when he already took part in his landlords business. But daily, at the hour appointed by her, he visited beautiful Kamala, wearing pretty clothes, fine shoes, and soon he brought her gifts as well. Much he learned from her red, smart mouth. Much he learned from her tender, supple hand. Him, who was, regarding love, still a boy and had a tendency to plunge blindly and insatiably into lust like into a bottomless pit, him she taught, thoroughly starting with the basics, about that school of thought which teaches that pleasure cannot be be taken without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every look, every spot of the body, however small it was, had its secret, which would bring happiness to those who know about it and unleash it. She taught him, that lovers must not part from one another after celebrating love, without one admiring the other, without being just as defeated as they have been victorious, so that with none of them should start feeling fed up or bored and get that evil feeling of having abused or having been abused. Wonderful hours he spent with the beautiful and smart artist, became her student, her lover, her friend. Here with Kamala was the worth and purpose of his present life, nit with the business of Kamaswami. 他到卡马斯瓦密家不久就参与了主人所做的生意。但是，每天一到卡玛拉跟他约定的时间，他就去拜访她，穿着华丽的衣服，精美的鞋子，不久后还给她带礼物。她那红润、聪明的嘴教会了他许多事。因为他在爱情方面还是个孩子，很容易冒失而不知足地陷入情欲之中，就好像跌入无底的深渊一样，所以卡玛拉就从根本上教给他不付出欢娱就得不到欢娱的道理。每一种手势，每一次抚摩，每一回接触，每一道目光，身体的每一个最细小的部位，都有其秘密，而唤醒这秘密都会带来幸福。她教他，在一次爱的盛典之后，恋人如果没有互相惊叹的感觉，没有既征服了对方又被对方征服的感觉，就不要分开这样双方才兴去产生厌倦与乏味，不会有那种勉强别人或被别人勉强的恶劣情绪。他在美丽而聪慧的女艺术家身边享受了许多美妙的时刻，成了她的学生、爱人和朋友。他现时生活的价值和意义可以说完全是在卡玛拉这儿，而不是在卡马斯瓦密的生意当中。 The merchant passed to duties of writing important letters and contracts on to him and got into the habit of discussing all important affairs with him. He soon saw that Siddhartha knew little about rice and wool, shipping and trade, but that he acted in a fortunate manner, and that Siddhartha surpassed him, the merchant, in calmness and equanimity, and in the art of listening and deeply understanding previously unknown people. "This Brahman," he said to a friend, "is no proper merchant and will never be one, there is never any passion in his soul when he conducts our business. But he has that mysterious quality of those people to whom success comes all by itself, whether this may be a good star of his birth, magic, or something he has learned among Samanas. He always seems to be merely playing with out business-affairs, they never fully become a part of him, they never rule over him, he is never afraid of failure, he is never upset by a loss." 卡马斯瓦密委托他草拟重要的信函与合同，并且习惯了跟他商量所有重要的事情。他很快就发现，席特哈尔塔对大米和棉花、航运和贸易所知并不多，但是他的手很有运气，而且，席特哈尔塔在沉着镇定方面，在倾听和了解陌生人的技巧方面，胜过了他这个商人。"这个婆罗门，"他对一个朋友说，"不是个真正的商人，将来也不会是。他的心对做生意毫无热情可言。可是，他拥有那些能自动获得成功的人的秘密，也不知是因为他天生福星高照还是他会魔法，或者是由于他从沙门那儿学到的本领。做生意对一塌胡涂他似乎似乎只是游戏，从来不会完占据他的心，从来不会完全控制他，他从来都不怕失败，从来都不担心亏本。" The friend advised the merchant: "Give him from the business he conducts for you a third of the profits, but let him also be liable for the same amount of the losses, when there is a loss. Then, he'll become more zealous." 那朋友给商人出主意："你把生意交给他，从他给你赚的红利中分三分之一给他，若是亏本了，也让他承担同样份额的损失。那么，他就会更热心了。" Kamaswami followed the advice. But Siddhartha cared little about this. When he made a profit, he accepted it with equanimity; when he made losses, he laughed and said: "Well, look at this, so this one turned out badly!" 卡马斯瓦密采纳了这个建议。但是，席特哈尔塔仍然漫不经心。他得了红利，就不动声色地收下，有了亏损，他也是笑笑，说："嘿，这次又搞砸了！" It seemed indeed, as if he did not care about the business. At one time, he travelled to a village to buy a large harvest of rice there. But when he got there, the rice had already been sold to another merchant. Nevertheless, Siddhartha stayed for several days in that village, treated the farmers for a drink, gave copper-coins to their children, joined in the celebration of a wedding, and returned extremely satisfied from his trip. Kamaswami held against him that he had not turned back right away, that he had wasted time and money. Siddhartha answered: "Stop scolding, dear friend! Nothing was ever achieved by scolding. If a loss has occurred, let me bear that loss. I am very satisfied with this trip. I have gotten to know many kinds of people, a Brahman has become my friend, children have sat on my knees, farmers have shown me their fields, nobody knew that I was a merchant." 事实上，他显得对做生意并不上心。有一次，他到了一个村庄，要在那儿收购一大批稻谷。可是当他到达时，稻谷已经卖给了另一个商人。然而，席特哈尔塔还是在那个村子待了几天，招待农民们给他们的孩子铜币，还参加了一个婚礼，然后才满意而归。卡马斯瓦密责备他没有即刻返回，浪费了时间和金钱。席特哈尔塔答道："别训斥啦，亲爱的朋友！靠训斥从严都达不到什么。既然有了亏损，那就让我承担吧。我很满意这次旅行。我结识了各种各样的人，一个婆罗门成了我的朋友，孩子们骑坐在我的膝上嬉戏，农民们给我看他们的田地，没人把我当成一个商人。" "That's all very nice," exclaimed Kamaswami indignantly, "but in fact, you are a merchant after all, one ought to think! Or might you have only travelled for your amusement?" "这一切都挺不错，"卡马斯瓦密不高兴地嚷道："但实际上你是个商人，就是这话！难道你这次去只是为了消遣？"