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
So, for that reason Poe becomes a kind of model,

基于上述理由坡成了一种标杆
and he's the model in both ways: both as a pedophile

这体现在两个方面:同样是恋童癖
and as someone who imagined himself and his young love

同样幻想着自己和小爱人