all of us, all who knew her, felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her.

我们所有认识她的人在与她相比后都认为自己是完整健康的
We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness.

她的丑陋衬托了我们的美丽
Her simplicity decorated us.

她的单纯装点了我们
Her guilt sanctified us.

她的罪过使我们得到了净化
Her pain made us glow with health.

她的痛苦显示出我们的健康
Her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor.

她的笨拙尴尬使我们认为自己富有幽默感
Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent.

她不善言辞让我们认为自己巧舌如簧
Her poverty kept us generous.

她的贫困让我们保持慷慨之心
Even her waking dreams we used to silence our own nightmares

甚至她的白日梦也被我们用以消除自己的噩梦
and she let us and thereby deserved our contempt.

她允许我们鄙视她进而发展为她应该被鄙视
We honed our egos on her,

我们将她作为磨刀石把自我打磨得更为锐利
padded our characters with her frailty,

将她的软弱作为对比来丰富自己的品格