There is that physical comedy, and I'll suggest to you that in that sentence, the pushing and pulling, you're seeing part of Nabokov's verbal play.

有着强烈的肢体喜剧色彩，我认为在这句话中，反复出现的推和拉，想你展示了纳博科夫的文字游戏。

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There's a tremendous amount of pulling and pushing that goes on in Tony the Tow Truck.

搬运车托尼》里头,运用了大量的推和拉。

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It's interesting I think that - if one thinks of Tony the Tow Truck one can think of-- - when you go home and study it, you'll see what I mean-- there's a complex pattern of imagery, as it were, between pulling and pushing.

我认为,如果有人想起《搬运车托尼》可以想起-,你们回去好好研究研究，就明白我的意思了-,里头关于，推和拉的意向很复杂。

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We'll revert especially to the notion of "pushing" in other contexts later in the course, but for the moment you can see the way in which there is a tension between that which pulls and that which pushes which is one of the motive forces of the story.

以后我们会在,其他作品中回归“推“的本意，但是现在我们能看得出来,在推和拉之间有一种张力,这也是整个故事发展的动力之一。

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