It was getting better as I got deeper in to Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer.

我吃得越来越好了，因为越往爱荷华州走，那里的派就越大，冰激凌也越多奶油。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选