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 he says the novel has as its only purpose to provide aesthetic bliss.
  他的小说的唯一目的就是提供审美愉悦
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  So, here is inutile loveliness coming
  因此 没用的可爱
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  just from seeing the landscape as a stranger.
  就是因为有如同陌生人看到这一片景色一样的心情
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  Humbert goes on:
  亨伯特接着写道
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  There might be a line of spaced trees silhouetted against the horizon,
  在地平线上或许还有一片高大的树林
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  and hot, still noons above a wilderness of clover,
  在荒野炎热的正午时分衬影成剪影
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  and Claude Lorrain clouds inscribed remotely into misty azure
  克劳德·洛兰云朵被绘入远处雾蒙蒙的晴空
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  with only their cumulus part conspicuous
  只有它们堆积的部分在浅灰色昏暗的背景中
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  against the neutral swoon of the background.
  凸显
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  Or again, it might be a stern El Greco horizon,
  又或者是艾尔·格列柯式的地平线
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  pregnant with inky rain, and a passing glimpse of some mummy-necked farmer,
  孕育着黑沉沉的暴风雨 一些怀抱农具的农夫匆匆走过
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  and all around alternating strips of quicksilverish water and harsh green corn,
  四周是交错变换波光的水面和青玉米