"Ligeia", which Poe thought his best grotesque story, is now, for most readers, a jumble of morbid self-pity, diabolism, and gimcrack Gothicism.

波自《娅》是他怪诞小说中的上品，现大部分读者为不过是病态自怜，鬼附身，浮华怪诞的大杂烩而已。

And all of a sudden, that gimcrack knocks my window and decidedly came to pick me up without even telling me.

那个死蠢忽然间敲我墙口并打算知我的情况下接我去跟他吃饭。