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 so let's look now at one of those evocations of the American landscape
  我们来一起看一段对美国风景的描写
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  which I just think maybe are the closest the book comes just to pure beauty.
  我认为这可能是本书中最接近纯粹之美的地方
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  On page 152--oh, and by the way, this book was written on road trips.
  一百五十二页 顺便提一下 这本书写于公路旅行途中
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  Nabokov's wife, Vera, drove him on thousands of miles of trips
  纳博科夫的妻子维拉载着他环绕全国走了好几千公里路
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  around the country while he was writing this novel and hunting butterflies,
  在路上他一面写小说 一面捕蝴蝶
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  so think about that-- but here is 152, evocation of the landscape:
  可以想象一下 再看一百五十二页 对风景的回想
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  By a paradox of pictorial thought, the average lowland North
  按照图画思想的悖论 当我第一次看到北美乡村的大片低地时
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  American countryside had at first seemed to me something I accepted
  我惊奇于这如同之前某种
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  with a shock of amused recognition,
  可笑的认知
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  because of those painted oil cloths which were imported from America
  因为那些旧时从美国进口的彩绘油布
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  in the old days to be hung above washstands in central European nurseries,
  就挂在中欧地区育婴室脸盆架的上方
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  and which fascinated a drowsy child at bedtime with the rustic green
  油布上那土气的绿色描绘的景色深深吸引着昏昏欲睡的小孩子