OH, right, and fashion. Good one, Cue Ball.

喔 对的 还有时尚 说得好 主球。

The other ball, known as the cue ball, is white.

剩下的那个球，被称作母球，是白色的。

“A shame for you to miss the fun, ” Old Cue-Ball says. “Feeling better now? ”

“错过今天的活动是你的遗憾，”老白球说，“现在感觉好些了？”

Players strike the cue ball with the end of a long piece of wood, called a cue stick.

选手用一根被称作球杆（a cue stick）的长木头的末端击打母球。

You can put your opponent in a difficult position by leaving the cue ball behind the eight ball.

你可以通过让母球留在八号球后面的方法让你的对手犯难。

One is to use a “kinetic impactor”—in effect employing a heavy, fast-moving spacecraft as the cue ball in a game of interplanetary billiards.

一种办法是使用“动能冲击飞船”——就好像把一种重型快速移动的飞船当做白球，在太空打台球一样。

And who should I see in the lobby, sitting in a chair and reading a newspaper, but Mr. Earl Higgins, alias Old Cue-Ball.

结果我赫然发现大堂里坐着看报纸的那位不是别人，正是厄尔·希金斯先生，即老白球。

We laid down the cash and I handed him the cue ball.

我们各自押下现金后我把母球递给他。

“I understand you were too sick to tour New York with the rest of the boys and girls, ” Old Cue-Ball says. He eyes me up and down.

“我听说你生病了，不能跟其他同学一起参观纽约，”老白球说着，眼睛上下打量着我。

Mr. Higgins, our bald principal (breezily referred to in the Vomit as Old Cue-Ball) , told me that Miss Margitan had been very hurt and very upset by what I had written.

我们的秃头校长希金斯先生（《呕吐》中俏皮地称他为老白球）对我说，我写的东西让玛吉坦小姐很伤心，很难过。

I have a memory of being led onto the elevator later that night—or maybe it was early the next morning—by Peter Higgins (Old Cue-Ball's son) , Butch Michaud, Lenny Partridge, and John Chizmar.

我记得那天晚上有人扶我进电梯——也许已经是第二天凌晨——扶我的有彼得·希金斯（老白球的儿子）、布奇·米考德、莱尼·帕特里奇，还有约翰·奇兹马。

They also funnel high energy particles down to a layer of the Sun called the chromosphere, where they quickly transfer their energy like a cue ball striking the rack in the game of billiards.

它们还能集合成高能粒子，掉进太阳的光化层，在那这些高能粒子快速的转化其能量，就像台球中开球时用母球撞击一堆目标球一样。

We went on a bus, about forty kids and three chaperones (one of them was Old Cue-Ball, as a matter of fact) , and spent the first night in New York, where the drinking age was then eighteen.

我们四十几个学生和三个老师（事实上，三位老师之一就有老白球）一起坐大巴去的，第一天晚上我们在纽约停留，纽约当时合法的饮酒年龄是十八岁。