Any genuinely new trend is a knight's move. I just remind you, in chess the knight doesn't move in a straight line.

所以，任何新趋势都是迂回前进，我只是提醒大家一下，在国际象棋中马是不走直线的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or, he doesn't say it; his autobiographical hero says it: "Any genuinely new trend in art is a knight's move, a change of shadows, a shift that displaces the mirror." Okay.

或者他没讲，他是在自传《英雄》中提到了：,“艺术上任何一个全新的趋势都是迂回前进的，是一种影子的改变，一个转移镜子的变化“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And I think of that front and back of the page as another kind of knight's move. You think you're looking at one thing, and you land on another.

这让我想到这页的开头和结尾都是一种迂回前进,你认为你正在看某样事物,事实上你在看另一个。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We have to pair that with that other evocation of the landscape to see this alternate idea, that actually this distanced criss-crossing of the landscape could be damaging. Think of those other violent knight's moves, like skipping past the mother's death.

我们得把关于风景的另一个回忆组成一对去理解,这个额外的想法，这个疏远的,十字纵横的景色描写可能是毁坏性的，想想其他的暴力的,迂回前进，比如跳过母亲死亡的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Here, being in exile prevents Nabokov from making that knight's move. And you might think about that homophobic attitude to a Proustian past, the fear that it's too like what he wants to do.

因为被放逐的事实，纳博科夫不能,实现迂回前进，大家可能会想到他对,普鲁斯特过去持有的恐同性恋的态度，想到他的恐惧。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The point is that this cliched suburban life of mowing the lawn, Humbert is a foreigner--into something you can laugh at, something you can enjoy, something that you can apply the knight's move to.

这段话的意思是乡下人民这种修剪草坪，亨伯特是个外国人），变成了一种你感到开心,你很享受，你可以用迂回前进理论理解的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选