one of Yale's greatest scholars.

耶鲁最有名的学者之一
He's a polymath, he knows about everything,

他是位无所不知的大学者
but including about Shakespeare and he has a much advertised

当然也对莎士比亚略懂一二
photographic memory.

而且他还拥有如照相机一般的记忆力
So I happened to run into him at the Whitney Humanities

我在惠特尼人文中心与他巧遇
Center, actually in the men's room of Whitney Humanities center.

准确点说是在惠特尼人文中心的男厕所
While we were there I asked him about the Merchant of

在那儿我向他请教了
Venice and whether he happened to remember the rate of

《威尼斯商人》一文
interest that Shylock ends of charging Antonio,

他恰巧忘了夏洛克对安东尼奥的放贷利率
and he said, "Dear boy, I remember almost everything,

他对我说我几乎什么都记得
but that I've forgotten."

但就是把这个忘了
It was so unimportant to him that he didn't even remember the

这点对于他来说无关紧要