a thousand times and we have thrown the side door open

一千次我们猛然打开侧门
when she was upstairs changing beds

露西尔还在楼上整理床铺
and we have brought in leaves and flung the

我们带进来了树叶弄乱了窗帘
curtains and tipped the bud vase and somehow left the house again before

打翻了花瓶在她跑下楼前又离开房子
she could run downstairs, leaving behind us a strong smell of lake water.

在身后留下一股湖水味
She would sigh and think, "they never change."

她会叹口气想她们老是这样
Or imagine Lucille in Boston, at a table in a restaurant waiting for a friend.

或者想象露西尔在波士顿的饭店等朋友
She is tastefully dressed, wearing, say, a tweed suit

她穿得很有品位穿着粗花呢套装
with an amber scarf at the throat,

系着琥珀丝巾乌黑的头发上
to draw attention to the red in her darkening hair.

一抹红色格外醒目
Her water glass has left two thirds of a ring on the table and she works

玻璃酒杯在桌子上留下了三分之二个圈
at completing the circle with her thumbnail.

她用手指想把圈画完