A rich man was very ill, has no cure, and the only son in a foreign land at the moment and far.
有一个富翁得了重病，已经无药可救，而唯一的独生子此刻又远在异乡。Drive to a foreign country for the weekend and Nancy Dunn, the way the car broke down in a small town in Louisiana.
驾车到异乡度周末的唐恩和南西，途中，车子在路易西安纳一个小镇抛锚。Although lonely in a new land, he was described by his fellow workers and students as cheerful, of a friendly nature, honest, and modest.
虽然他单身一人，又处在异乡客地，但正如他的同事和学生描述的那样，他为人愉快开朗，温文尔雅，诚实谦虚。Now considered how she was to dispose of herself in a strange country so far from home.
这时候她离家很远了，想着自己到了异乡该怎样安排自己的生活才好。and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.
谁要是见不到莱姆近郊的妩媚多姿，不想进一步了解它，那他一定是个不可思议的异乡人。Alas, I cannot stay in the house, and home has become no home to me, for the eternal Stranger calls, he is going along the road.
唉，我不能留在这屋子里了，家对我已不再是家了，因为永恒的异乡人在对我呼唤，他正沿着道路走来。Had been planning to a casual walk around the city, breathing the breath of a foreign country and experience the different styles.
原本打算到城市里的随便转转，呼吸下异乡的气息和领略到不同的风情。But there was a more real life for Hester Prynne, here, in New England, that in that unknown region where Pearl had found a home.
但对海丝特·白兰来说，住在新英格兰这里，比起珠儿建立了家园的陌生的异乡，生活更加真实。What makes the strange man so slim? Years of trudge? Francesca thinks, wandering around passing every mottled shadow like a lost ghost.
是什么让眼前这个异乡客如此健硕？长年辛苦地跋涉吗？