All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I lived in the seaside town in Massachusetts.

我在马萨诸塞的海边小城住过。

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She was a child and I was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, - But we loved with a love that was more than love-- Annabel Lee I and my Annabel Lee-- With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me.

我和她都还只是孩子，在这个海边的王国，我们炙热的相爱了-,我和我的-,我们的爱连天上的六翼天使,也把我和她妒嫉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud by night Annabel Lee chilling my Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.

这就是原因，很久以前，在海边的王国，夜里一阵冷风从云中吹落,冻僵了我的;,于是她高贵的亲戚到来了,把她从我身边带走，将她关进一座坟墓,在大海边的王国里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选