1. SHE lives with her husband, Curtis Sanders, a former store owner and textile merchant, in a shingled house painted in tropical aqua with yellowish green trim, the tallest building at the center of an artists` colony that faces a working harbor on Rocky Neck Avenue.
Olsen的丈夫Curtis Sanders是以前的店主和纺织品商人，他们一起生活在一栋浅绿色装饰着黄绿色边框的木房子里，那是艺术家聚居区中心最高的一座建筑，面朝着Rocky Neck街的海港。
2. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prairie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip.
从我的屋子向着一个方向望过去，河畔的草地上，有着一个麝鼠的聚居地；而在另一个地平线上，榆树和悬铃木底下，却有一个满是忙人的村子，使我发生了好奇之心，仿佛他们是大草原上的狗，不是坐在他们的兽穴的人口，便是奔到邻家闲谈去了。
3. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows;
从我的屋子向着一个方向望过去，河畔的草地上，有着一个麝鼠的聚居地；