Many of the adults in my life, especially my parentsteachers, would look at those closest to me: Mariam, Alisa, Zena, Lianne,Marvin,ask how I could call these "low-life losers" my friends. 我身边的很多 成年人，尤其是老师和父母，很难理解我怎么可以和玛丽安，阿莉萨，赞娜，马文这些“彻底的失败者”如此亲密。
And to those Mavericks from Mrs. Walton's class at Marvin Ridge Middle School in North Carolina.
还有那些北卡罗来纳州马文里奇中学沃顿夫人班上的同学们。
刀锋（下）
" Don't you think it's very strange that a country boy from Marvin, Illinois, should have a notion like that" ?
“你不觉得一个来自伊利诺伊州马文的乡下男孩会有这样的想法很奇怪吗”？
刀锋（下）
" I dared not think that this was illumination that I, Larry Darrell of Marvin, Illinois, had received when others striving for it for years, with austerity and mortification, still waited" .