There was the faint, cool kiss of sensuality when dew came to my cheeks and shins as I ran down the wet green garden paths in the early morning.

我觉到晕厥，当清晨奔跑在,花园潮湿的绿道上,露珠在我脸上留下清冷的一吻。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.

然而突然，糟糕得很，我崇拜的那副美好的裸体,投入了台灯下一双男人赤膊的肩膀，他穿着内衣裤,读着报纸，靠在敞开的窗边，沉浸在,炎热，潮湿，绝望的夏夜里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选