It lodged itself, a white on black negative, somewhere behind my eyes and haunted me: her lightly tanned arm tight around his waist, her fingers resting lightly on the waistband of his uniform.

黑色底片上的白色底片上， 它在我眼睛后面的某个地方，萦绕着我：她晒黑的手臂紧紧地搂着他的腰， 她的手指轻轻地放在他制服的腰带上。

He was a short man with a mustache resting like a small white cloud beneath his undistinguished nose. He had reached the stage where his value as a social creature was a black and imponderable negative.

他是个矮个子，小胡子像一朵小白云一样搁在他不起眼的鼻子下面。他已经到了这样一个阶段，他作为一个社会生物的价值是一个黑色的、无法估量的负面因素。