Throbs" is a word that Nabokov brings out over and over again, in multiple contexts, always connected somehow with this novel.

悸动这个词，Nabokov经常使用，在很多的文章中似乎总与这本小说有关。

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But beyond that, there is the fact that for the Greeks that early and always--by the way it remained so, the notion of justice is directly connected with a polis.

除此之外,另一个事实就是,从始至终,无论早期还是晚期的,希腊人对正义的观念,都是直接和城邦有关的

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