kinds of truth, not a racial truth,

不是关于种族的真相
other kinds of truth-- we see marks on his body that don't

而是其他的他身体的特征并没有
produce that knowledge. "Also previously concealed was

提供种族信息"他身上秘而不示的还有
the small, Popeye-ish blue tattoo situated at the top of his right arm

这个蓝色的小纹身就刺在他的
just at the shoulder joining, the words "U.S.

右臂上方靠肩处在小而模糊的
Navy" inscribed between the hooklike arms of a shadowy little anchor and

船锚的锚臂旁沿着三角肌的斜边
running along the hypotenuse of the deltoid muscle,

纹着'美国海军'的字样
a tiny symbol if one were needed of all the million circumstances of the

这个小符号象征了某人无时无刻地
other fellow's life, of that blizzard of details that

被同伴需要这怪异的细节
constitute the confusion of a human biography,

造成了对一个人经历的困惑
a tiny symbol to remind me why our understanding of people must

这小小的象征提醒着我为什么我们
always be, at best, slightly wrong."

对他人的认知再好也总是存在偏差"