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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  you're also going to find in those passages,
  你们还会在那些段落中发现
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  while you're being just brought to the sense of parody,
  当你们恰好感觉被嘲弄了的时候
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  just to the edge of what you can tolerate in that vein,
  当你们恰好对它忍到极限的时候
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  you're going to get a sharp sentence;
  你们会看到一个尖锐的语句
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  you're going to get a sharp piece of very original prose style.
  你们将看到一种非常新颖的 非常尖锐的 散文风格
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  This is part of Nabokov's talent, is to manipulate you.
  操纵读者是纳博科夫的一项天赋
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  This is another way of manipulating you,
  这就是操纵读者的另一种方式
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  is to make you see the cliche and then
  即令读者在看厌陈腔滥调后
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  to draw back from it to something that surprises you.
  将读者从中抽离 再呈现给读者惊喜
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  So, this is part of the strategy.
  这只是他策略的一部分
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  And then watch what happens to the prose style and the difference in tone:
  那么再来感受一下散文的风格和语气发生了什么改变:
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  "I find it most difficult to express with adequate force
  "我发觉要用足够的说服力表现出那一刹那的情景