Then news came that Dean was out of reform school and was coming to New York for the first time; also there was talk that he had just married a girl called Marylou.

然后消息传来说安被寄宿学校开除了,将第一次来纽约;,还有传言说他刚和一个叫玛丽露的姑娘结婚了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Strange to say, too, that night we crossed the ferry with Bull Lee a girl committed suicide off the deck either just before or just after us. We saw it in the paper the next day.

还有件很奇怪的事儿，我们和布尔·李渡过渡口的那天晚上,一个姑娘从船上跳水自杀了，大概不是在我们渡河之前,就是以后，第二天我们从报纸上看到了这个消息。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I refused a girl 20-years-old at $700.00 yesterday," one trader wrote to another in 1853.

昨天我拒绝了一个,开价七百美金的二十岁姑娘",1853年一个交易商,在给另一个的书信中写道

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

If you knew your way around in the funhouse like your own bedroom, you could wait until a girl came along and then slip away without ever getting caught, even if her boyfriend was right with her.

如果你在开心馆中跟自己在寝室里一样熟悉门道，你可以等一个姑娘前来，事后溜之大吉,绝不会被人抓住，即使她男朋友就在旁边。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选