来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第7集 第7集》

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  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
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  so far this term that this is, for many books,
  对于许多书本而言 上述
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  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
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  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
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  It's true that Black Boy was censored,
  《黑男孩》确实被审查过
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  even after it was published in its abbreviated form.
  甚至在出了删节版之后
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  On a Book entitled Lolita, you'll see,
  《关于一本提名<洛丽塔>的书》你们就会明白
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  as Nabokov describes, he circulated it to American publishers, four of them,
  如纳博科夫所述 他把原稿交给了四家美国出版社
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  and it was turned down by everybody, finally published in France by the Olympia Press which
  却被每一家拒绝 最终由奥林匹亚出版社在法国出版