来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第15集 第15集》

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  around her hair, carrying a broom.
  从房间穿过
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  Yet this was the time that leaves began to gather in the corners.
  此时落叶已经开始在墙角堆积
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  There were leaves that had been through the winter,
  有的叶子熬过一冬
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  some of them worn to a net of veins.
  一部分烂在一条条的管道里
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  There were scraps of paper among them, crisp and strained from their
  中间掺杂着纸屑 蜷曲着咔咔作响
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  mingling in the cold brown liquors of decay and regeneration,
  混在腐烂和重生的冰冷褐色液体中
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  and on these scraps there were sometimes words.
  这些污物上有时会有文字
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  One read Powers Meet, and another, which had been the flap
  一个写着: 强强对话 还有一个
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  of an envelope, had a penciled message in an
  是信封封口 不知是谁在上面用铅笔写着
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  anonymous hand: I think of you.
  我想你
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  Perhaps Sylvie when she swept took care not to molest them.
  也许是希尔维打扫的时候不想撕了它们
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  Perhaps she sensed a Delphic niceness in the scattering of these
  也许是她觉得散落的树叶和碎纸