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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  By safely locating that precursor in his own childhood when,
  将那位前任安排在他的童年时期是项安全的举措
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  as he says, he was her equal, where there was no crime,
  因为如他所说 他是她的同龄人 那时还没有邪念
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  only a kind of infantile passion that nobody would blame him for,
  仅有一份孩子气的激情 没人会为此而责怪他
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  he invites us to think of Humbert as somehow still retaining
  他想要我们觉着亨伯特还保持着
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  a kind of innocent purity, that that passion itself is the
  天真的纯洁 而那激情本身是
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  innocent purity that flames at the heart of childhood.
  天真纯洁的 就像童年时心中的火焰
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  Then we get these allusions, and if you have the annotated
  然后我们得到这些暗示 而且假如你的书里
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  or if you already know Poe,
  有注释或是你已知道坡[美国作家]
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  is a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe,
  《安娜贝尔·李》是埃德加·爱伦·坡写的一首著名诗篇
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  and "the princedom by the sea" is a feature of it.
  并且"海滨的小王国"是诗中的一个意象
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  And so, I'm going to read this to you,
  所以 我要给你们朗诵这首诗
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  and there's a reason why I want to read the whole thing.
  我读这首诗是有原因的