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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And in that class, we study great works of western philosophy, like going back as far as Plato through Aristotle,

在这门课上，我们学习西方哲学的伟大作品，比如说通过亚里士多德讲到年代久远的柏拉图，

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So in a sense it tells you this work of art is of a piece with what you already know; it's familiar in those ways, and you shouldn't be afraid of it.

在某种程度上,这告诉了你这件艺术作品,其实是你早已认识的东西;,你已经通过那些方式了解了它，不用怕它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Milton's performing a similar boundary-crossing aesthetic gesture here.

弥尔顿在他的作品中也展现了这种美学上的边界交叉。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Modernity is, in his work, a condition of social and psychological fragmentation which is both a private, personal dilemma and a public one, as he understands it.

在他的作品里，现代性，是一种社会和心理上的零散状态,就他而言，这既是个人的僵局，也是社会的停滞不前。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Here you are gonna be swamp by writings by me.

在这门课上，你们会读很多我的作品。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

bug You're gonna run into innumerable bugs most likely, by bugs we mean mistakes, - behaviors that you didn't quite intend and yet they seem to be-- and yet your program seems to be misbehaving in some sense.

你可能会制造数不清的，对了，我们称bug为错误或，你完全没有预料到的行为，但是它们的确存在-,这样看来，你的作品在某种意义上可以说是行为不端。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And so, I would be remised if I didn't draw your attention to the artwork that they've been working on at store.cs50.net.

因此，如果不能让你们对他们的作品引起注意,那我只能放弃了,在store。cs50。net上可以看到他们设计的作品。

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