Up a trackless slope climbs the master artist,

在那无路可循的山坡上攀援的是艺术大师
and at the top, on a windy ridge,

只是当他登上山顶当风而立
whom do you think he meets?

你猜他在哪里遇见了谁
The panting and happy reader,

是气喘吁吁却又兴高采烈的读者
and there they spontaneously embrace

两人自然而然拥抱起来了
and are linked forever if the book lasts forever.

如果这本书永垂不朽他们就永不分离
So, this is Nabokov's beautiful evocation of how writer and reader

这就是纳博科夫的对作者和读者
meet at the summit of this misty mountain of the imagination.

在想象的迷雾山顶相遇的绝妙描绘
But, I've been suggesting to you over the course of the lectures

然而在本学期至今我一直跟你们强调
so far this term that this is, for many books,

对于许多书本而言上述
a totally idealized sense of how a reader encounters it.

完全只是理想化的描述作家与读者的相遇
And no book demonstrates that in quite the same way on our syllabus as Lolita itself.

我们的大纲中也没有任何书像《洛丽塔》一样