for the tropical beginning of the month.

我们已经碰到好几次冰雹大风天气了
In a volume of the Young People's Encyclopedia

我在一卷《年轻人的百科全书》中
I found a map of the States

发现了一张美国地图
that a child's pencil had started copying out on a sheet of lightweight paper,

地图是一个小孩用铅笔在一张薄纸上画的
upon the other side of which,

纸的另一面
counter to the unfinished outline of Florida and the Gulf,

正对着未完成的福罗里达和海湾各州
there was a mimeographed list of names referring,

有一张油印的名单
evidently, to her class at the Ramsdale School.

名单很明显是她在拉姆斯代尔学校的同学
And I think of that front and back of the page as another kind of knight's move.

我觉得这一页前后就是另一种跨越性手法
You think you're looking at one thing,

你觉得你在研究一样东西
and you land on another.

结果却得到了另一个
It is a poem I know already by heart:

这是首我早就烂熟于心的诗