Aristotle lived at the virtual cusp of the world of the autonomous city-state of the Greek polis.

亚里士多德住在可说是希腊城邦世界中,最顶尖的自治城市。

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Unlike Nabokov, these writers are not trying to make a language that is autonomous and separate from the world, so you will not see the kind of artifice and the labored attention to form.

不同的是这些作家并不想要营造一种,独立的和世界分离的语言，所以你不会看到这方面的炼化技巧,和费劲地塑造。

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Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选