See the merry limbs in hot Highland fling Because some wizard vermin Charmed from the quiet this revel When our ears were half lulled By the dark music Blown from Sleep's trumpet.

看那在苏格兰高地舞欢快的四肢,因为一些男巫,神往陶醉于这狂欢中,当我们的耳朵半听着,在黑暗音乐边的是小号的声音。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

We are also put in mind of how the war is, in fact, anything but a revel, though it, too, may have been provoked by a cause as insignificant and hard to trace as "some wizard vermin."

我们同样也思考事实上战争，只是一场狂欢，尽管它有可能,是由一个毫不重要难以追踪的“一些害虫“引起的“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

On the three thousand two hundred eighty-seventh night of your Parisian affair, as I lay in Simois-mud picking vermin off the wound I got that day from cunning Pandarus, exhaustion closed my eyes.

在你和帕里斯发生关系后的第三千两百八十七夜,那个日子是狡猾的潘达洛斯告诉我的,我正躺在西摩伊斯河岸边，拣伤口上的虱子,疲惫让我闭上了眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选