I should say, owes a lot to Joyce.

我必须说一下其写作很大一部分归功于乔伊斯
And I've given you a piece of that diary to look at on your own on the handout.

我在讲义中附了那篇日记你们可以看看
But this is the moment that directly alludes to Portrait,

但是这儿直接暗示了《肖像》
and it's really very important for understanding Nabokov's technique.

这对于理解纳博科夫的写作技巧非常重要
So, page 51, near the bottom:

第五十一页最下面
Thursday: We are paying with hail and gale

周四因为月初的热带风暴
for the tropical beginning of the month.

我们已经碰到好几次冰雹大风天气了
In a volume of the Young People's Encyclopedia

我在一卷《年轻人的百科全书》中
I found a map of the States

发现了一张美国地图
that a child's pencil had started copying out on a sheet of lightweight paper,

地图是一个小孩用铅笔在一张薄纸上画的
upon the other side of which,

纸的另一面
counter to the unfinished outline of Florida and the Gulf,

正对着未完成的福罗里达和海湾各州