点评:If you wanna know the truth, this goddam trip will have you running home even if your parents are waiting to kill you. I stayed at the Edmont Hotel and let me tell you it made me depressed as hell. You may think the doorman is nice but he's a phoney and will offer you a prostitute for extra dough. He punched me for chrissake. The Lavender room is fine if you find some ladies to dance with but they wont give you drinks without a goddam id. I felt like I was taking a helluva lot of cabs just to go to some lousy bars. Ernie's is a bar in Greenwich village that I went to. Ernie is a terrific snob I swear but he's pretty good at piano.
I went in the winter and it was cold as hell. The lagoon in Central Park freezes and all the ducks disappear, you should've seen it. I really wanna know where they go. Anyway, I would go in the hotter weather because the cold really killed me. I was shivering like a bastard in Central Park. The good thing about Central Park is that at night there was no one there. New York is swarming with phoneys so even though I was lonely and freezing, it was peaceful as hell to be alone.
My favorite place I went to was the Museum of Natural History. I grew up going there with my teacher and it makes me happy to think about it. "The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move" (Salinger 65pdf). It was so goddam peaceful there I swear. The only problem is some morons write profound graffiti everywhere even in that peaceful museum, so be careful with the kids there. Anyway, New York is full of phonies and it's pretty crumby so I would skip it for your next trip.
翻译:说实话,这趟该死的旅行会让你恨不得立刻回家,就算你爸妈在等着宰了你也一样。我住在埃德蒙特酒店,我跟你说,那地方简直让我郁闷死了。你可能觉得门童挺和善,但他是个骗子,会为了多赚点钱就给你介绍妓女。他居然还揍了我一顿!薰衣草厅还不错,如果你能找到几个姑娘跳舞的话,但是没有身份证他们根本不给你酒喝。感觉我打了无数辆出租车,结果去的都是些破酒吧。我去过格林威治村的厄尼酒吧。我发誓,厄尼是个十足的势利眼,不过他钢琴弹得还不错。
我是冬天去的,冷得要命。中央公园的泻湖都结冰了,所有的鸭子都消失了,你应该看看那景象。我真想知道它们都去哪儿了。总之,我建议你天气暖和的时候去,因为那寒冷真的要了我的命。我在中央公园里冷得直哆嗦。中央公园的好处是晚上一个人都没有。纽约到处都是虚伪的人,所以即使我又冷又孤单,一个人待着也无比宁静。
我最喜欢去的地方是自然历史博物馆。我小时候经常和老师一起去那里,现在想想都觉得开心。“不过,那座博物馆最棒的地方在于,所有东西都保持原样。没人会动它。”(塞林格 65pdf)。我发誓,那里真是太安静了。唯一的缺点是,有些白痴会在博物馆里到处乱涂乱画,即使是在这么安静的地方,所以带孩子去的时候要小心。总之,纽约到处都是虚伪的人,而且挺糟糕的,所以下次旅行我建议你别去。