来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第9集 第9集》

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  either just before or just after us.
  不知道是在我们上渡船前或下渡船后
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  We saw it in the paper the next day.
  第二天 我们从报纸上知道这件事
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  Here you get a dream, not just of trans-historical time,
  你们在这看到一个想象 还不是超历史时刻
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  the old Spanish ships that turn out just to be freighters
  发现老西班牙式的船楼只是
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  from Sweden and Panama;
  来自瑞典和巴拿马的货船
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  you get another nod to Melville, Cereno ships
  你会欣然赞许梅尔维尔 切莱诺之船
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  (Benito Cereno is one of Melville's famous novels).
  《贝尼托·切莱诺》是梅尔维尔最出名的小说之一
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  "That everything I would ever know was One."
  将来或许会发生的事都在此时成为一体
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  The oneness that he is looking for is partly that oneness of
  他寻找的这种统一 部分是来自
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  mystical emptiness that we saw in the last passage.
  我们在最后一段看到的空无神秘主义
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  But here we get the sense of the racial oneness that
  另外民族统一的观念
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  comes out in some of the other parts of the novel:
  也在小说别的地方体现出来