And the badness for him isn't just a matter of separation, because that we already had in number one.

这里的坏处不仅仅是分离，因为在故事一我们就已经经历过分离了。

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Nevertheless, as I emphasized earlier in the patriarchal stories, in the end we're dealing here with sacred history.

无论如何，就像我先前在族长故事中强调的，最后我们在这里探讨的是宗教历史。

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But actually, the thing I want to think about is a crude pun there, a "fairy" tale. Proust is himself gay. One of his big subjects is homosexuality, and Nabokov's reaction to this is really homophobic. This is not just about Nabokov's personal prejudice.

但事实上，我想说的是这里的一个粗糙的双关语，一个“童话“故事，普鲁斯特是一个同性恋，他讨论的一个,话题就是同性恋，但纳博科夫对此是相当反感的,这仅仅是因为纳博科夫的个人偏见。

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I like to tell that story because it sounds obvious that if you were a goldsmith hundreds of years of ago you would have probably become a banker -it would just be the natural thing to do.

我喜欢讲这个故事,因为这里面的道理很简单,如果你是几百年前的一名金匠,你很可能就会变成一个银行家,这是自然而然的事

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In another, the priests carry the Ark around the city 13 times, so scholars think there are two different accounts here woven together.

在另一个故事里，祭司拿着约柜绕城13次，因此一些学者认为是两个故事在这里交织在了一起。

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