But one little piece by Melville,

先简单说一下梅尔维尔
because it's about you.

因为是关于你们的
This was Melville's meditation in poetry

这是梅尔维尔在诗歌中对
on the death of college students in the war.

在战争中死去的大学同学的沉思
It's called "On The Slain Collegians."

名为关于被杀的大学生
It's timeless, it could be about any war,

没有日期可能是不特指某一场战争
Although collegians don't go to war anymore very much in America.

虽然在美国大学生不再参与到战争中
"youth is the time when hearts are large

"年轻人激情澎湃
and stirring wars appeal to the spirit

激动人心的战争吸引着他们
which appeals in turn to the blade it draws.

换来的却是砍向自己的利剑
If woman in sight and duties show,

如果有女人出现便有了责任
though made the mask of cane,

尽管戴着藤条编制成的面具