He was a couple of classes ahead of me at the Eastman School of Music.

他在我前面的班上,在伊曼音乐学院

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but they're just so different and like, he was way ahead of his time, really.

但它们同中有异，他确实走在他所处的时代的前面。

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So, he's banging away over somebody's head at the guy on the other side, but you see this guy in front of you has just been knocked down.

所以他正在忙着砸对面某人的脑袋,但你看见你前面的人被击倒了

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You might think of walking in here expecting Professor Hungerford on censorship and getting me instead. But this is a very important idea for Nabokov both as a way of treating predecessors and as a way of writing. And I want to show you that way of writing very early in the book on page 10 now. Let's take a look at that.

你们可能期待亨格福特教授走上讲台,取代我讲审查制度，但这对纳博科夫而言,是非常重要的对待前辈和写作的方法,接下来，我将向你们展示,他的写作风格，在这本书的很前面，第10页，我们一起看一下。

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They do that by skiing really fast s gold medal skier skiing in front of him saying jump, turn right, so forth.

以非常快的速度滑雪,世界冠军在他前面滑着，and，having，the，world’,不停地发出，起跳，右转，等口令。

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