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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  equally formal but dead:
  同样正统却死气沉沉的模样
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  "bluestone children."
  蓝宝石般的孩子
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  So, this is the other form that the aesthetic can take.
  便是这种美学的另一种形式
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  And I think that Nabokov is consistently concerned about
  我想纳博科夫一定考虑
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  these two valences of what the aesthetic can look like.
  美学形式的这两种表现方式非常之久
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  So, if it can look like the gem, it can last forever.
  因此他认为 如果美变得如同宝石那样 就会能够恒久
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  As Humbert dreams at the very end of the novel, he says,
  亨伯特在小说的最后做了一个梦 他说
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  "I am thinking of aurochs and angels,
  我想到欧洲野牛和天使
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  the secret of durable pigments,
  想到颜料持久的秘密
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  prophetic sonnets,
  想到预言性的十四行诗
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  the refuge of art,
  想到艺术的庇护所
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  as this is the only immortality you and I may share,
  这就是你和我可以共享的唯一不朽的事物