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
It's true that Black Boy was censored,

《黑男孩》确实被审查过
even after it was published in its abbreviated form.

甚至在出了删节版之后
In the '80s it was censored from high school libraries,

可还是在80年代不容于各大高中图书馆
but Lolita was censored at the very start in a different way, and completely.

但是《洛丽塔》一开始被审查时就完全与之不同
If you read, as I asked you to do, the essay at the back,

如果你们照我说的读了最后的那篇