Nabokov cannot meet his reader on the misty mountain ; because somebody has to agree to publish this book first; it has to exist in the world before that reader can meet it.

然而纳博科夫却不能在这座巅峰上与他的读者相遇,因为在那之前必须有人先同意出版那本书;,在读者遇到那座山峰之前，它必须首先存在。

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And this will have to go up before The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry before they approve it because they fought over element 106 for the longest time, but I think this will go through fairly quickly.

但还是要往上申请,直到国际纯粹与应用化学联合会,因为同意,他们为106号元素抗争了很久，但我想这个应该会很快通过。

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Sometimes, when the ideas of political philosophers are as familiar as Locke's ideas about consent, it's hard to make sense of them or at least to find them very interesting.

有时当一些政治哲学家对同意的看法,与洛克非常相似时，都让人很难理解,或至少不会觉得很有趣。

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