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
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
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
something like the butterflies that he was so enchanted

如同他所见到的蝴蝶
with in his life and work outside of fiction.

出现于他的生活中而不是小说里
And the butterfly does appear in just one moment,

蝴蝶这个意象在小说里出现过一次
and it's during the tennis scene.

打网球的那个场景
As Humbert and Lolita play,

亨伯特和洛丽塔在打网球时
there is one butterfly that flits between them.

一只蝴蝶飞快地从他们中间飞过
It's a mark of their equality as artists in that moment.

这标志了那一瞬他们作为艺术形象的平等性
The butterfly is the perfect work of art because it is both a representation

用蝴蝶喻完美的艺术作品因为它既是一种象征
and alive.

同时也是鲜活的生命