their "Gallant decks", as he called them.

他称之为 "华丽的甲板"
And I realized that day sometimes metaphor is not just a metaphor.

那天我明白了有时隐喻不只是隐喻
"Our house stood within a few rods

"我们的房子到切萨皮克湾的距离
of the Chesapeake Bay"--

简直是近在咫尺"
this is Douglass's description--

这是道格拉斯的描述
"Whose broad bosom was ever white with sails

"从地球上所有可居住的角落驶来的帆船
from every quarter of the habitable globe.

把海湾宽广的胸怀变的一片茫白
Those beautiful vessels robed in purest white,

那些被纯白覆盖的美丽的船只
so delightful to the eye of freemen"--

在自由民眼中是如此的可爱"
don't you wish you could write like this when you're 26?--

你们不想二十六岁就能写出如此的词藻吗
"Were to me so many shrouded ghosts,

"在我看来却是穿着寿衣的幽灵
to terrify and torment me

恐吓着我折磨着我