纳博科夫曾是一位贵族家庭的小少爷。

Nabokov was the scion of an aristocratic family.

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当马恩的项目还在针对德国时，纳博科夫的美国名著《洛丽塔》是用它所有不自然的媚俗写成的致美国的一封情书。

While Mann's subject remained Germany, Nabokov's American masterpiece, "Lolita", is a love-letter to the country in all its plastic kitsch.

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事实上，纳博科夫快死了。

In fact, Nabokov was dying.

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So, now, here's just a list for you: eight features of literary modernism that are all important to Nabokov.

现在我给大家一张列表,上面列举了八项对纳博科夫非常重要的文学现代主义的特征。

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Now I want to contrast that with what we see from Nabokov in this essay, Good Readers and Good Writers.

现在我要把这和《好读者和好作者》这篇文章中,纳博科夫的观点做下比较。

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So, where is Nabokov in here? I think that's one of the places where Nabokov is. It's Nabokov meditating on this problem.

那么，在这一段中纳博科夫在哪里呢？我，认为这是他所,存在的一个地方，纳博科夫正在沉思这个问题。

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