来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第6集 第6集》

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  whether or not he or she has actually left it,
  不管他是否真的离开过自己的国家
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  as Nabokov did.
  就像纳博科夫那样
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  So this is what I mean by International High Modernism.
  这就是我所说的国际纯现代主义
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  You should add to this list of writers especially Faulkner and hemingway,
  你们可以在这份名单上再加上福克纳和海明威
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  and you should remember that there's a parallel american tradition,
  要记住美国传统有平行性
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  the realist tradition that we saw richard Wright referring to:
  一方面是理查德·赖特谈到的现实主义传统
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  that is Theodore Dreiser, sinclair Lewis,
  如西奥多·德莱塞 辛克莱·刘易斯
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  and then going back to the nineteenth century, writers like Mark Twain.
  另外一方面是一些十九世纪的作家 如马克·吐温
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  I had a teacher who used to compare Lolita to Huck Finn.
  我有位老师 曾把《洛丽塔》和《哈克费恩》相提并论
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  They are two novels about traveling across America and an unconventional couple.
  两篇都关于穿越美国的旅行 且都是一种非常规的二人组
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  But now, that modernist tradition is something that Nabokov owes a lot to,
  但是 纳博科夫的很多特点虽然都来自于现代主义传统
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  but he always tries to distinguish himself from it.
  他却试图将自己与这一传统区分开来