我容身的牢房地板上本可以铺上九乘十一针的土耳其地毯的,但这样一来也就把他们数十年来所沉积在木地板上的脚底板的污秽陈迹给掩盖住咯。
The floor of my cell could have been covered by a nine-by-twelve rug , but that would have hidden the decades of filth that had left their stamp upon the wooden floor .