Interestingly, towards his death, I had the chance to meet him, And I asked him... He knew he was dying.
在他去世前,我曾经去拜访他,我问他。。。,他知道他就要离开人世。
He's not claiming--and he points this out to us-- that his explication is the true one. That's not his point at all.
他并未声称,他自己也指出了这点-,他并未声称他的解释就是真实的,他完全不是这样认为的。
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。
He knows that he shouldn't put arsenic under - He shouldn't put arsenic under aluminum.
他知道他不能将砷放到,他不能把砷放到铝的下面。
It is not on his behalf, he tells the audience, but yours, his fellow citizens' that he does what he does.
而他告诉听众那不是从他自身出发,而是为了众人─他的同邦公民',他才挺身为其答辩。
This is going to travel, fishing with his grandfather, visiting his grandfather's shoes' shop, things that were just an intriguing part of his life.
这个故事是关于,他和他祖父钓鱼,拜访他祖父的鞋铺,以及他生活的其它趣事。
He was the kid who was covered with mud for seven days, He said, "It doesn't look the same to me anymore, I think there were sort of spiritual awakening for him during that.
当时,他还是个孩子,远足的七天里,他浑身是泥,他说:“我对风雨的认识有了改变,可能在这次远足中,他有了灵性上的觉醒。
Welles heard that obviously, and he quickly came back. But when she died, he stopped taking lessons, before that, he was adept before he was ten years old.
威尔斯当然听到了,所以他,很快回来了,但在,他母亲去世之后,他就不再上课了,在这之前,在他十岁的时候他就对乐器很熟练了。
And Achilles then speaks up and really lets him have it, chews him out, tells him what a bozo he is, and, you know, the very important thing is this.
阿喀琉斯说了出来,让他把姑娘还回去,唾弃他,骂他是个十足的白痴,有一点非常重要
Milton's blindness, the fact of his blindness, has shut out his view of the visible world, which would ordinarily present itself to him through the entrance of his eyes; and this shut-out will enable him, will help him, explore the invisible world of divine truth.
弥尔顿的失明,他失明的这个事实,遮住了,他看具体世界的目光,他通常是通过双眼,这个通道来看具体世界的,不过这种蒙蔽帮助了他,使他能够探索不可见世界中的神圣真理。
Whatever he removes out of the state that nature has provided, " and left it in, he has mixed his labor with, and joined it to something that is his own, " and thereby makes it his property."
所以只要他使任何东西脱离自然所提供的状态,《政府论》第五章,“论财产“,脱离其现有状态,他就已经掺进他的劳动,在这上面施加了他自己所有的某些东西,因而,使它成为他的财产“
And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.
许多场合下总统,都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。
But faced with the question what should he do, what did he want to do with his remaining couple of years, what he decided he wanted to do -- was finish his Yale degree-- thought he'd set himself the goal of graduating college before he died.
但面对着他该做什么这个问题,在他剩余的几年生命里他想要做的事,他所决定的他想要做的事,是完成他的耶鲁学位-,认为他想给自己设定在死之前,从大学毕业的目标。
He was one of the guys, he was one of the gars, he was one of the guys. He'd been wounded three times, and he was a runner, he carried messages to the trenches, from the generals who were all drinking champagne in Reims, to the front.
他就是那些人中的一员,他就是那些小伙子,他就是那些人中的一员,他负伤三次,他是个传令兵,往战壕里送信,从那些在,兰斯喝香槟的将军直到前线
He goes on in a letter in spring 1862 the war still isn't a war against slavery in any official sense and he writes home to his brother saying he wishes he had the, quote, "Moral courage to desert," because he no longer wants to serve this cause.
在1862年春天的信中,从政治角度来说,那还不是真正意义上的反奴战争,他写信给他哥哥说,他希望有点"道德气节",因为他不想再为这理由继续下去
Now, Ludwig van Beethoven was in his fifties when he was working on his last symphony-- what would prove to be his last symphony-- his Ninth Symphony, and he'd been tinkering with this particular melody all the way back to probably 1803, so it's about twenty years or so.
路德维希·凡·贝多芬在五十多岁时,创作了他最后一首交响乐,后来成为他最后的交响曲,就是他的第九交响曲,他一直在锤炼这段旋律,也许要追溯到一八零三年,所以大概经历了二十个年头
Well we could begin with George Washington Alright, for your sake, we toss in John Kennedy ... who cut taxes. -Because... the Kennedy tax cuts and the Reagan tax cuts ... were both major tax cuts. -Did you hear me ask him ? for a one-word answer? Did you hear me?
那干脆从乔治·华盛顿谈起得了,真是的,好吧,看在你的面子上,姑且把他算上吧,他好歹也减税了,-因为。,肯尼迪的减税和里根的,都不可等闲视之,-我不是让他,只回答一个字吗?他怎么说这么多?
So, you might think that he would stop his experiments here, and maybe he would have, but as I mentioned, he did have Geiger a postdoc working with him by the name of Geiger. He also had an undergraduate, UROP we could say maybe even a UROP working with him, and this was by the name of Marsden Marsden was the name of this UROP.
停下他的实验了,也许他是可以,但我说过,他还有个博士后,此外他还有个本科生,或者可以说是,和他一起工作,他的名字叫。
Indeed, in addition to finding him very difficult you've probably said, "Why does he have to write like that?" In other words, "Yeah, okay. He's difficult, but isn't he making it more difficult than it needs to be?"
事实上,除了发现他难懂以外,你可能会说,“为什么他要这样写?“,换句话说,“是的,他的思想很难懂,但是他这样写不是让他的思想更难懂了吗?“
He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."
他是自愿成为流浪汉的:,当他还是个小男孩的时候,他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派,他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问,“妈妈,那个家伙是谁“,“是个流浪汉“
He says at the outset of his argument, "There are some," he says, indicating this is an opinion held by many people.
他说在他的论述之外,“有些人“他这么说,点明了这是很多人所持的看法。
Hobbes returned to England the same year of the book's publication, and spent most of the rest of his long life, Leviathan was written well into his 60s.
霍布斯回到了英国,在他书出版的那年,他度过了他剩下的漫长的时光,《利维坦》在他60多岁的时候写成。
When he laughed, was witty, in a merry humor, one could scarce sees his eyes, and by and by, when he was serious and positive, he opened his eyes round.
当他笑时,他是睿智的,带有令人愉快的幽默,都看不见他的眼睛了,不一会儿,他变得严肃和积极了,便圆睁着眼睛。
Because when that happens, when he gives up his rage, and he allows-- you remember he allows Priam to bury his son Hector, something he would have refused to do in his rage.
通过这件事可以看出来--,当他不再愤怒时,他允许--,你们记得吗,他允许普里阿摩斯埋葬他的儿子赫克托尔,而这是当他愤怒时本该拒绝的事情
Here's what Herodotus says: First, because his city was flourishing, that is his polis, that is the word to read, it's flourishing in his time and he himself had sons both beautiful and good.
下面是希罗多德记录的,首先,根据资料,他的城邦,在那个年代非常繁荣昌盛,他的城邦在他那时非常繁荣,他的儿子们既英俊又善良
He worked at all sorts of jobs: in factories, at a mill, on a newspaper. He was a schoolteacher, and of course he was a farmer, too, when his grandfather gave him a farm to work, which he did, for ten years in Derry, New Hampshire.
他做过各种工作,在工厂,磨坊,报社,他也当过教师,他是一个农民,他祖父给了他一块地,十年里他都在新汉普夏羊劳作。
On the other hand,when he, even Oedipus himself, when he understands and he relents,and in a sense he apologizes for what he's done,but more importantly,he ceases,of course, to be powerful and to act in that way,wisdom comes to him.
另一方面,即便是俄狄浦斯自己,当他对他的所作所为开始反思,悔过,更为重要的是他选择了让步,他变得强大,智慧再次降临到他的头上
In the first speech of the Apology, he defies the city to put him to death by expressing indifference to death and then in the Crito, he very much expresses that indifference to death by refusing to allow Crito to let him escape.
苏格拉底自辩篇》的第一场申辩中,他抗拒城邦处他死刑,理由是他根本漠视死亡,但之后在《克里托篇》,他表述漠视死亡的方式,变成拒绝让克里托助他逃亡。
Another fact is that we are told that when Alexander the Great went out to conquer the Persian Empire, and as far as he was concerned,to conquer everything he could reach, he carried with him a copy of the Iliad which it is alleged he put under his pillow.
另一个事实是,据说当亚历山大大帝,出征去征服波斯帝国时,对他而言,就是去征服他能达到的一切,他随身带着一本《伊利亚特》,据说放在他的枕头底下
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