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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  by very virtue of being alive, can also die.
  任何存活之物 都可以朽灭为死
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  So, this is the problem with the autonomous work of art.
  这就是自足的艺术作品的矛盾
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  If your dream as a writer is to make an autonomous work of art that has,
  如果你梦想成为一个自足作品的写作者的话
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  as we say in a very colloquial way, a life of its own,
  通俗地说 成为一个赋予自己作品独立的生命的作家的话
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  but the problem is that there is something about life
  便必须面对
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  that's dependent on the possibility of its negation.
  有生之物 其价值某种意义上受到其死亡的可能性所影响
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  That's why on Valentine's Day
  这正好可以解释为什么
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  you might give your lover real flowers rather than plastic ones.
  情人节的时候你该送给恋人鲜花而不是塑料的仿制品
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  It's the very potential to decay that makes them beautiful.
  零落凋朽成就了盛放之花的美丽
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  And so, the problem here is that Nabokov dreams of an art that's living
  转回来说 纳博科夫的艺术理想是成就鲜活的艺术
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  something like the butterflies that he was so enchanted
  如同他所见到的蝴蝶
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  with in his life and work outside of fiction.
  出现于他的生活中而不是小说里