This week,we will tell about North America's monarch butterfly.

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And the butterfly does appear in just one moment, and it's during the tennis scene. As Humbert and Lolita play, there is one butterfly that flits between them. It's a mark of their equality as artists in that moment.

那蝴蝶曾经在短短的一瞬出现过，那是,在那个打网球的场景里，当亨伯特和洛丽塔打球的时候，一只,蝴蝶从他们中间飞过，它标志着他们在那个时刻是艺术家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Can you make a novel, as he says in the essay, that will "sprout wings and grow claws" in secret in his mind? That's an image taken from the metamorphosis of the butterfly within the chrysalis.

你能够让一本小说，就像他在那篇文章里说的那样，会在他,脑海里秘密的“展开翅膀，伸出爪子“？，这是从蝴蝶羽化中,借鉴来的比喻。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选