He didn't sign into a hotel as Peter the Great or whatever, but he would go in with a name that wasn't his.

他在酒店登记时不会签彼得大帝之类的名字,而是用一个假名来代替

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But our engineers work in a three-star hotel, not very flashy, not on the spotlight, and I only promised them to raise their salaries twice a year.

而我们的工程师在三星级酒店工作，不豪华，更不引人关注，我只承诺每年涨两次薪水。

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Goncourt, one of the writers, the Goncourts, the one who hadn't died yet, was no friend of ordinary people, but there's an amazing scene in his memoirs when he's down by the Hotel de Ville and he sees these women chained together, being walked around, and he says, "What, where are they going?"

龚古尔,龚古尔两兄弟都是作家,当时还活着的那一个,和平头百姓从来合不来,但在他的回忆录里有这样惊人的一幕,他路过市政厅的时候,看见一些被锁链串成一列的妇女们,正在被游街,他就问,"怎么,她们这是要去哪"

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In Nabokov there is, but it's usually aesthetic: how things look, the look of a hotel, the look of a field, the look of a child, the look of a woman.

在Nabokov的书中有：,不过一般是美学的：事物看起来怎么样，旅馆的样子，田地的样子，小孩的样子，女人的样子。

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