我告诉他，如果他退出那么他要自负其则。

I told him if he withdrew it was on his own account.

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他声称他的父母抛弃了他。

He claimed that his parents had abandoned him.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

他不愿来，他说他太忙。

He wouldn't come—he said he was too busy.

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Interestingly, towards his death, I had the chance to meet him, And I asked him... He knew he was dying.

在他去世前，我曾经去拜访他，我问他。。。，他知道他就要离开人世。

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He's not claiming--and he points this out to us-- that his explication is the true one. That's not his point at all.

他并未声称，他自己也指出了这点-,他并未声称他的解释就是真实的，他完全不是这样认为的。

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So, there are multiple ways, at multiple levels, that Nabokov is defending his work in this afterword. For one thing, he insults the publishers.

因此，在这篇后记中，纳博科夫在多种不同层面上,为他的作品辩护，一方面，他侮辱他的出版商。

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