来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第5集 第5集》

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  True: not a single obscene term is to be found in the whole work.
  的确:在整个作品中找不到一个淫秽的词
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  Indeed, the robust Philistine who is conditioned by modern conventions
  当然 粗鲁庸俗的读者受到现代习俗的影响
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  into accepting without qualms a lavish array of four-letter words in
  总心安理得地接受一部平庸的小说中的大量粗俗下流的词语
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  a banal novel will be quite shocked by their absence here.
  他们对这部作品在这方面的匮乏会感到相当吃惊
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  If, however, for this paradoxical prude's comfort,
  然而 如果为了让这种自相矛盾的故作正经的人感到舒适
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  an editor attempted to dilute or omit scenes that a certain type of
  哪个编辑就试图冲淡或删去被某种类型头脑的人
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  mind might call aphrodisiac （And then he makes reference to the court
  称作'色情'的场面（然后他援引了1933年《尤利西斯》
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  case in which Ulysses was ruled not to be obscene in 1933）
  被法庭判定非淫秽读物的案例）
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  "one would have to forego the publication of Lolita
  "那么就只好完全放弃出版《洛丽塔》了
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  altogether, since those very scenes that one
  因为这些场面虽然可能会被某些人
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  might ineptly accuse of sensuous existence of their own are the most
  不适当地指责为本身就会激起情欲
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  strictly functional ones in the development of a tragic tale tending
  但它们却是一个悲剧故事的发展过程中最起作用的场面