He, too, had his hackwork . 他也寫(xiě)過(guò)純粹為了糊口的東西。
In a way, he was the "poor-devil author" of whom washington irving wrote a sympathetic sketch, the man who from vast dreams of literary fame descends to ignominious hackwork . 他有幾分象歐文筆下令人惋惜的那個(gè)“可憐巴巴的作家,”從天才夢(mèng)墮落為雇傭文人。