来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第2集 第2集》

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  For days I had dreamed about a huge,
  接下来好多天我都梦到一艘巨大的
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  white boat floating on a vast body of water,
  白色的船漂浮在广阔的水面上
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  but when my mother took me down to
  但当出发那天母亲带我
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  the levee on the day of leaving,
  走向码头
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  I saw a tiny,
  我只看到一艘又小又脏的
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  dirty boat that was not at all like the boat
  船和我想象中的
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  I had imagined.
  一点也不像
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  If in the catalog imagination is awakened,
  如果想象可以成为现实
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  this is what it
  那就可以为
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  can then do for Richard.
  理查德实现他的愿望了
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  It can endow his daily experience
  它将他的日常经历
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  with a kind of romance.
  赋予了一种浪漫的感觉