He moves through Harlem, therefore, like an occupying soldier in a bitterly hostile country, which is precisely what, and where, he is, and is the reason he walks in twos and threes.

• 所以，他就象一个驻扎在怀有强烈敌意的他国的占领军士兵一样走过哈莱姆；这正是他的身份，他所在之处，和他仨俩成群地走过的原因。