That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called. Retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title.

我们叫做玫瑰的这一种花要是换了个名字,它的香味还是同样的芬芳，罗密欧要是，换了别的名字，他的可爱的完美,也决不会有丝毫改变。

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So, anyway. Okay. But now, that modernist tradition is something that Nabokov owes a lot to, but he always tries to distinguish himself from it. For Nabokov, the highest value is originality.

好吧，不管怎样，但现在，现代主义传统,很大程度得归功于纳博科夫，虽然他一直试图把自己,从中区别开来，对纳博科夫而言，最高尚的价值是独创性。

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