My point, at the end of my lecture on Lolita on Monday,

在周一结束小说洛丽塔时我提出的观点是
was that Nabokov is trying to imagine an autonomous work of art

纳博科夫试图构想一个独特的艺术作品
that has a life to it, that is in some sense animated or

它蕴含着生命富有鲜活的生机和鲜明的个性
personified, and that this desire to make the aesthetic something living

而这种希望赋予美以生命的想法
introduces to the world of the aesthetic the problem of mortality.

将美带入了死亡的问题中
It's mortality that gives it that sense of ephemeral value,

死亡给予了美昙花一现的价值
but it's also mortality that threatens to cancel

却也给它带来了
it out altogether.

消失殆尽的威胁
The language that the Beats tried to imagine, tried to write,

宾斯试图构想和写作一种语言
takes up some of these problems that we saw in Nabokov.

其同样存在着我们在纳博科夫看到的问题
Unlike Nabokov, these writers are not trying to make

但不像纳博科夫这些作者并未想创造
a language that is autonomous and separate from the world,

独立的与世界分离的语言