通过使用一个化名，他已在得梅因租了一所房子。

Using an alias, he had rented a house in Des Moines.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

最早的联邦鸭票是由J.N.“丁”·达林设计的，他是爱荷华州得梅因市的一位政治漫画家，当时被富兰克林·罗斯福总统任命为生物调查局局长。

The very first Federal Duck Stamp was designed by J.N. "Ding" Darling, a political cartoonist from Des Moines, Iowa, who at that time was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as Director of the Bureau of Biological Survey.

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她看上去像在得梅因或丹佛街上与我擦肩而过的任何一位美国人。

She looked as American as anyone I might have passed in the streets of Des Moines or Denver.

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I actually thought it was hard to understand, just what was happening, the action part of the story. It might have been that I read it too quickly. Uh huh. Harder than "Menelaiad" to understand? No.

事实上，我认为它很难理解，就是到底发生了什么，即故事中的动作部分，也可能是我读得太快的缘故,所以不太理解罢，比《梅尼洛斯》更难懂吗，不是的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选