There's no life that I'm able to imagine for myself that's one that I would want to take on forever.

我不能为自己想象出一种,愿意永远过下去的生活。

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Do you want to be lobotomized where that's the only way, at least that we've got so far, to imagine a life that you would enjoy forever.

你们想接受额叶切除术吗,至少那是我们想到的唯一办法，去想象一种永远享受的生活。

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Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

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