Even if he was on this train." His moving to the city is an attempt to move away from the natural world and become a thing,a machine.

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So, there are multiple ways, at multiple levels, that Nabokov is defending his work in this afterword. For one thing, he insults the publishers.

因此，在这篇后记中，纳博科夫在多种不同层面上,为他的作品辩护，一方面，他侮辱他的出版商。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is an amazing thing for Satan to say after his fall.

撒旦在失败后说出这样的话令人称奇。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It is affection loyalty and friendship that make up a regime. This sort of thing he says this political partnership is the work of affection philia is his word is the work of affection.

正是感情，忠诚及友情,构建出一个政体，他说,这类的情感，这种政治合作关系是感情的杰作,他用了，Philia，这个字，感情的杰作。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Milton -- this will be the working assumption that I bring to my reading of this poem -Milton sets out to prove something in Lycidas, and the most important thing that he proves is his control over the learning that he has accumulated.

弥尔顿-这是我个人对于诗歌的理解之中,极为有益的一点假设,弥尔顿旨在在里证明一些事情，他所要证明的最重要一点在于,其自身对于他所学所积累的一种完全的掌控。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选