来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说第11集第11集》

this dreadful sea is a single hope,

死亡之海的是一个简单的愿望

gift of my poor dead comrade: that

来自死去的同伴的礼物
You may be stronger-willed than I, and that by sheer force of

也许你意志比我坚定也许是我
concentration I may transmit to You, along with Your official Heritage,

传递给你专注的力量还有你那遗产
a private legacy of awful recollection and negative resolve.

以及充满可怕回忆和负面决定的私人遗产
Mad as it may be, my dream is that some unimaginable

不管这念头有多离奇我这样梦想
embodiment of myself

我融身的那个新生命

(or myself plus Her if that's how it must be) will

(或者必要的话我和她的合身)
come to find itself expressing, in however garbled or radical a

在其言行中将多少反映我的沉思
translation, some reflection of these reflections.

哪怕经过了曲解或极端化
It's a dream of changing the tradition, of having that individual

这是一个梦想通过加诸个人观点
voice added to the tradition, to have it become part of the official heritage

来改变传统成为官方遗产的一部分