From the top here

从维苏威楼上

of Vesuvio’s

这儿

I have just seen

我刚看见

a man with

一个戴眼镜

Spectacles

留胡子的男人

and a beard

沿着

come along

阿德勒小巷

Adler’s Alley

走来

roughly

大概

twenty-five years old

二十五岁

to the garbage bin and reach

走到垃圾桶旁

in and lift

伸手进去

out a container

掏出一个

of pistachio

开心果冰淇淋的

icecream

盒子

and lick it

用手指

with his fingers,

舔食残余

then reach in

接着又伸进去

for a piece of paper

拿出一张纸

and wipe his fingers

极细致地

very delicately

擦拭他的手指

and his mouth

又极优雅地

very elegantly

擦拭嘴唇

and continue

随后继续走向

on into the

主街。你能

mainstreet, what

对着这块面包

can you

说些什么呢？

say to this

陀思妥耶夫斯基？

piece of bread?

Dostoyevsky?