原因是许多人喜欢说双关语。

The reason was that a lot of people like to make puns.

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罗伯特·格雷斯，一个家道殷实的年轻绅士，为人慷慨，生气勃勃，机智聪明，喜欢说双关语很讨朋友喜欢。

Robert grace, a young gentleman of some fortune, generous, lively, and witty; a lover of punning and of his friends.

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公平地说，双关语通常不可能被忠实地翻译出来。

Puns, to be fair, are usually impossible to translate faithfully.

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And so, he tried to diffuse that with a pun by saying, Non sum rex said Caesar.

于是,他想用一句双关语来辟谣,凯撒说"余非君"

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But actually, the thing I want to think about is a crude pun there, a "fairy" tale. Proust is himself gay. One of his big subjects is homosexuality, and Nabokov's reaction to this is really homophobic. This is not just about Nabokov's personal prejudice.

但事实上，我想说的是这里的一个粗糙的双关语，一个“童话“故事，普鲁斯特是一个同性恋，他讨论的一个,话题就是同性恋，但纳博科夫对此是相当反感的,这仅仅是因为纳博科夫的个人偏见。

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What happens in Russia is what happens in Prussia, as well, and in other parts of Eastern Europe, particularly in the Hapsburg domains--you have, to make a very bad pun, a resurfacing of the region by people forced into serf contracts.

在普鲁士发生了与俄国一样的事情,东欧的其他地区也是一样,特别是哈布斯堡王朝的领域,说个不好的双关语吧,被迫签下契约变成农奴的人们把这些地区改头换面了

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