从维苏威楼上

From the top here

这儿

of Vesuvio’s

我刚看见

I have just seen

一个戴眼镜

a man with

留胡子的男人

Spectacles

沿着

and a beard

阿德勒小巷

come along

走来

Adler’s Alley

大概

roughly

二十五岁

twenty-five years old

走到垃圾桶旁

to the garbage bin and reach

伸手进去

in and lift

掏出一个

out a container

开心果冰淇淋的

of pistachio

盒子

icecream

用手指

and lick it

舔食残余

with his fingers,

接着又伸进去

then reach in

拿出一张纸

for a piece of paper

极细致地

and wipe his fingers

擦拭他的手指

very delicately

又极优雅地

and his mouth

擦拭嘴唇

very elegantly

随后继续走向

and continue

主街。你能

on into the

对着这块面包

mainstreet, what

说些什么呢？

can you

陀思妥耶夫斯基？

say to this

piece of bread?

Dostoyevsky?