I dreamed myself was pretty Paris, plucked by Aphrodite from the field and dropped into Helen's naked lap.

我梦见我自己是帅气的帕里斯，被阿弗洛狄特,从地上拽起来，跌落到海伦的裸露的两腿之间。

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And so when I was little, all I wanted to do is go to FAO Schwarz. And I really, really wanted to go, and I dreamed about it.

所以在我小的时候，我很想去FAO Schwarz。而且我非常想去，那曾是我的梦想。

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This other man I had dreamed A drunken, vain-glorious lout.

我曾认为这另外一个人,是爱好虚荣，粗鄙不堪的酒鬼。

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For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选