1. They are the men who are in the lodging-house sitting-rooms during bleak and bitter weather and who swarm about the cheaper shelters which only open at six in a number of the lower East Side streets.
    他们是在阴冷的天气里蜷缩在寄宿处的起居室里的那种人；他们是蜂拥在一些东区南部街道上更为便宜的可以过夜的地方的那种人，这些地方要到6点钟才开门。

2. I have presented it as a picture of failure, as if the criterion of success was that the music of Schoenberg, Birtwistle, and the rest should come to occupy the same role in our concert halls, record shops, and sitting-rooms as that of Beethoven and Brahms (or Michael Jackson and The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, for that matter).
    我提出了它作为失败的图片，好像成功标准Schoenberg音乐、Birtwistle和休息应该来占领在我们的音乐厅的同一个角色，纪录购物和贝多芬和Brahms的坐室和(或迈克尔杰克逊和艺术家以前以王子著名，就此而言)。