that--it's not analogous to, say, Conrad, who is Polish and

这并不像比如康拉德身为波兰人
learned English.

去学习英语
And you can see the marks in Conrad's fiction of his having

而且你们可以在康拉德的小说中看见
learned English and then, it comes across as a sort of clotted

他学习英语的痕迹那也逐渐变为康拉德
style in Conrad.

个人风格的一种浓缩
Some of the difficulty of Conrad's style is the difficulty of writing

康拉德的风格之难处在于用
in this acquired language.

后天习得的语言来写作
Nabokov has none of that.

纳博科夫一点都没有这种问题
So, what I want to do now is, with that background in mind, I want

我现在要做的是在了解了这些背景情况后
to take this up and just open up the first few pages.

我想拿起书翻开前面的几页
And I urge you not to neglect

我要提醒你们不要忽略了
the foreword by John Ray Jr.,

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