他是一个理发师吗？

Is he a hairdresser?

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一个理发师给一个神父理发。

A barber gave a haircut to a priest one day.

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你上一个理发师有使用过软发药水么？

Did your last hairdresser use a relaxer?

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In Kasbeam, a very old barber gave me a very mediocre haircut.

在加斯比姆，一个很老的理发师给我剪了个很难看的发型。

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So, let's begin with another of those scenes on 213 that Nabokov points out to us, the Kasbeam barber. Why did it take him a month to come up with the Kasbeam barber? What's going on in this tiny snippet that's so important? So here it is.

那么，我们从213页纳博科夫向我们指出的另一个,场景开始：理发师加斯比姆，为什么他花了一个月的时间,来创造理发师加斯比姆的形象呢？这个小片段里,发生了什么重要的事情呢？我们来看这里：

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You're not going to have a writer spending a month on the representation of a barber from Kasbeam.

这个作者才不会花一个月的时间,在如何表现一个从Kasbeam来的理发师上下功夫。

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