When you read Nabokov's autobiography,

当你们看纳博科夫的自传《说吧记忆》时
he talks about his own experiments with this kind of poetry when he was

他谈到了对这类诗歌的个人经验
young and especially when he was beginning to fall in love with girls

在他年轻时特别是当他与一位姑娘坠入爱河时
that he would meet around St. Petersburg.

他们常在圣彼得堡约会
He represents them as overheated attempts at literature,

他描绘那些诗歌是过于狂热的文学尝试
as dripping with a kind of excess, romantic excess,

洋溢着过度的浪漫
as essentially unable to do more than repeat a tradition.

本质上是对传统的重复
What Humbert has found, and I guess Nabokov has given him,

亨伯特在坡的诗中所领悟的我想是纳博科夫赋予他的
in the Poe, is not only that kind of overheated Romantic poetic referent;

而对于坡而言这不仅仅是那种狂热的抒情诗中的所指物
he's also chosen, of course, someone who married a very, very young bride.

他选的人坡当然也娶了那个年纪很小的妻子
So, Poe, I think at the age of about twenty or twenty one,

我记得坡是在20或21岁
married his fourteen-year-old cousin.

娶了他年仅14岁的侄女