I'll take his words literally; I will kill the cat," he thinks, and so he does. He hangs the cat.

我要杀了那只猫;,如他所愿，“,它就这样杀了那只猫。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In other words, he no longer can think straight and so he will do something dangerous,harmful, and very ultimately bad for himself,and when he does whatever it is, he is struck by Nemesis,the goddess of retribution.

换句话说,他已经不能理性思考,他会对自己做出危险,有害,甚至及其恶劣的事,无论他做了什么坏事,最终会被惩戒女神尼弥西斯制裁

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Yes, but predicting what he does versus what Clinton will do or Bush is a bit too much noise Nobody would have predicted George Bush So Bill Clinton was right, voting for Barack Obama would be a roll of the dice?

我倒是想，但是要预测他的政策,比起预测克林顿，或者布什，太不靠谱了,当时谁又会想到乔治·布什是这样的总统呢,这么说，看来比尔·克林顿没说错，他说，给奥巴马投票等于在赌运气，是吗？

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This is another thing to notice. He's not just making us experience Lolita's name the way he does; he's assuming that there are certain kinds of questions that we will ask. "Did she have a precursor?"

这也值得注意，他不仅让我们体会,他感知到的Lolita的名字，他想象出了,我们可能会提出的问题，在她之前还有别人吗“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选