No one was ever really named McFate.

真正叫麦克菲特的人并不存在
McFate is a kind of parody of real randomness.

麦克菲特是对真正的无目的性的一种嘲仿
You might think of it as having the same relation to real fate

你可能觉得这与真正的命运有着同样的关系
as chicken McNuggets do to chicken.

就像麦乐鸡对于鸡的意义
In other words, you might think of it as a kind of

换句话说你也许会觉得它就像
artificial, processed, bland, easily consumable version of fate.

一种人工处理过的平淡中迅速消耗掉的命运
I really mean that.

我是认真的
One of the funny things about that debt to Finnegans Wake is,

关于对《芬尼根守灵》有亏欠的一件可笑的事
Finnegans Wake as a book of puns is unreadable.

正是满篇双关语的《芬尼根守灵》不值一读
Nobody reads it except specialists like me.

除了我这样的专家没人会去读的
Lolita was a bestseller.

《洛丽塔》是本畅销书
Nabokov made so much money from it he was able to retire to Switzerland.

纳博科夫靠它赚了这么多钱都可以去瑞士养老了