Poor little Laura, my baby, to whom I had told everything about Dean, began almost to cry."Oh, we shouldn't let him go like this.What'll we do?"

可怜的小劳拉，我的宝贝，我曾经把狄恩的一切都告诉过她，这时她几乎要哭了：“噢，我们不能让他就这么走“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life and though he was a con man he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him.

狄恩属于那种对生活充满激情的年轻人,虽然他还是个很自信的骗子,这是因为生活中他希望得到的东西太多了,他希望能引起人们的注意。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Dean, ragged in a moth-eaten overcoat he bought specially for the freezing temperatures of the East, walked off alone and the last I saw of him he rounded the corner of Seventh Avenue, eyes on the street ahead and bent to it again.

狄恩穿着一件被虫蛀过的破大衣,这是他特意带来防备东部寒冷气候的，孤独地走了，我最后看到他徘徊在,7号大街的转角，眼望前方，然后转身消失了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Then I dressed and off we flew to New York to meet some girls."

然后我换好衣服，就和狄恩一起赶到纽约会那些姑娘去了“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选