用專業且通順的小說翻譯，翻譯下方英文為繁體中文，用語符合中文小說常用詞彙與成語，注意，不僅使用字面翻譯，也要搭配意譯，輸出前請反思修正過於機械翻譯語感的部門，不需要解釋 直接輸出結果
Light glissando up the piano by the bar followed by the obligatory tapping of a single high note. A song has come to the end. This is late Friday afternoon, October 1965, at the Tail O’ the Cock restaurant. Joe Coulombe, thirty-five, the smartest man in the room and just about every room he walks into, has gone jelly inside. Something bad is up. His friend and business partner, Merritt Adamson Jr., is mumbling, trying to gum up the courage to spit out some previously memorized line. The moment passes, and instead Joe watches Merritt lift a shy finger to the waiter, and order a fourth round of Gibsons.
鋼琴旁的輕快滑奏聲響起，隨後是一個高音鍵的必然敲擊。一首曲子結束了。這是1965年10月的一個週五下午，地點是尾巴雞尾酒餐廳。三十五歲的喬·庫倫博，這個房間裡最聰明的人，幾乎每個他走進的房間裡都是如此，此刻內心卻如同果凍般軟弱無力。事情不妙。他的朋友兼生意夥伴梅里特·亞當森二世，正在喃喃自語，試圖鼓起勇氣說出早已背好的台詞。這一刻過去了，喬看著梅里特舉起一根羞怯的手指，向服務生示意，點了第四輪吉布森雞尾酒。