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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  And eventually in the novel he will succeed in writing a poem,
  小说的最后他写成了一首诗
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  but here he doesn't manage to.
  不过这里他还没有成功
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  And so, this is a kind of forecast of what will happen later on.
  所以这是一种对即将发生的事情的预测
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  The further complication is that here he's writing a poem
  更复杂的是此时他正在作诗
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  and then he remembers an earlier attempt; that layering of memory,
  随即想到以前的一次尝试 这种层次记忆
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  and that kind of layering, is actually a prototype for the layering in Lolita:
  这种层次 正是《洛丽塔》中层次记忆的原型
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  The next day he sat at his table in the bare upper room for many hours.
  第二天 他在楼上空屋子里的桌子旁坐了好几个小时
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  Before him lay a new pen, a new bottle of ink and a new emerald exercise.
  面前摆着支新钢笔 一瓶新墨水 和一本绿色的新本子
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  [Skip a little.]
  跳几行
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  On the first line of the page
  本子的第一行
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  appeared the title of the verses he was trying to write: "To E-- C--."
  写着他的诗目 "给E-- C--"
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  He knew it was right to begin so
  他觉得这么写是对的