So, there are multiple ways, at multiple levels, that Nabokov is defending his work in this afterword. For one thing, he insults the publishers.

因此，在这篇后记中，纳博科夫在多种不同层面上,为他的作品辩护，一方面，他侮辱他的出版商。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I'm going to talk a little bit about its publishing history, its compositional history, actually, at the end of my two lectures on the novel.

我打算在讲这部小说的最后两次课上，略微谈一点关于这部小说的出版历史，实际上也是创作历史。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And it may well be that no poem has ever been since Paradise Lost published with line numbers in its very first edition.

只有《失乐园》首次印刷的时候把行数印上,之后的诗歌都没被这么出版过。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He is the author of the "Race Matters","Democracy Matters", "Restoring Hope","Prophecy Deliverance","Hope on a Tightrope", and now we have a new book out, which is "Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud".

他著有《种族问题》，《民族问题》,《重塑希望》，《摆脱预言》，《钢索上的希望》,而现在又有一本新书出版,即《尽全力去爱和生活》

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And the whole publishing industry was very careful to keep those or some, were very careful to keep those separate and how they will be managed. That was called separation of churching state. But when we began publishing on the internet, we discovered a new kind of content which are called community content.

整个出版产业十分小心,地保持着它们或者其中一些，非常仔细地保持,它们是分开以及如何管理它们，那被,称为政教分离，但是当我们,开始在互联网上出版，我们发现一种,新内容，交错社区内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

We last left the poet in the 1640s. Areopagitica, you'll remember, was written in 1644.

上节课讲到17世纪40年代的诗歌，《论出版自由》,是弥尔顿在1644年写的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And you're getting to see something like an intimation of John Milton the published poet, a poet whose energies are going to be directed toward making his poems public.

你们看到约翰·弥尔顿的一点暗示,这位出版作品的诗人,他的能量将完全花费在出版自己的诗篇上。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

One of the structural elements that lends Areopagitica its curious power is a carefully crafted network of images that Milton has employed to structure the thing.

一个保持着《论出版自由》的奇妙力量的,结构上的重要因素是弥尔顿构架这本著作的,精心制作的网状的人物形象结构。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选