He was a couple of classes ahead of me at the Eastman School of Music.

他在我前面的班上,在伊曼音乐学院

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but they're just so different and like, he was way ahead of his time, really.

但它们同中有异，他确实走在他所处的时代的前面。

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You'll probably remember that he says early in the essay that in order to recognize that we are in the presence of something that isn't merely within our own historical horizon, we need to be "pulled up short."

你们大概记得他在论文前面就讲过,为了意识到自己不仅仅在,一些我们时期出现的东西周围，我们需要“突然停下“

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You might think of walking in here expecting Professor Hungerford on censorship and getting me instead. But this is a very important idea for Nabokov both as a way of treating predecessors and as a way of writing. And I want to show you that way of writing very early in the book on page 10 now. Let's take a look at that.

你们可能期待亨格福特教授走上讲台,取代我讲审查制度，但这对纳博科夫而言,是非常重要的对待前辈和写作的方法,接下来，我将向你们展示,他的写作风格，在这本书的很前面，第10页，我们一起看一下。

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They do that by skiing really fast s gold medal skier skiing in front of him saying jump, turn right, so forth.

以非常快的速度滑雪,世界冠军在他前面滑着，and，having，the，world’,不停地发出，起跳，右转，等口令。

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