“对现实的思考，”《上发条鸟记事》中的主人公曾声称“最好的方法是尽可能的远离现实”。

"The best way to think about reality," the narrator of "the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" declares, is "to get as far away from it as possible."

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《发条鸟纪年》中的三本书分别是罗西尼序曲，舒曼的一只钢琴曲以及莫扎特《魔笛》中的一个人物。

The three books in The Wind-up Bird Chronicle are named after a Rossini overture, a piano piece by Schumann and a character in Mozart’s Magic Flute respectively.

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后来，她到了美国，两三年的时间里，她教我们见识了枝头唱歌的夜莺与靠一根发条发声的人造鸟之间的分别。

Then she came to America and for two or three years she taught us the difference between the nightingale that sings in the tree tops and the artificial bird that goes with a spring.

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