They're white; they are from an upper-class

他们是白人他们来自纽约上流社会
section of New York; they're distinguished by their

知识分子的家庭背景使他们显得
family's intellectualism.

卓尔不群
Similarly, Ambrose could be said to be in the majority group,

类似的安布罗斯也可算作主流中的一员
and certainly by the definition of someone like Morrison or Kingston,

照莫里森或汤亭亭给小说下的定义来看
that fiction--they're members of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant

他们都是清教徒
heritage, the members of Ambrose's family.

包括安布罗斯的家族成员也都是
But, if you recall, in Ambrose His Mark

回想一下在小说安布罗斯里
the family is eccentric.

这个家族有些古怪
They, too, are marked by their difference from the churches in town,

他们与镇上教堂的格格不入非常特别
the independence of their thinking, the skill with which they carve;

他们独立思考雕刻技艺精湛
they have artistic skills.

并在其中蕴藏美学