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 in fact it's more than that:
  不只是这样
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  he translated Lolita back in to russian later on,
  他随后将《洛丽塔》 译成了俄语
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  and he added a second afterword
  在增加的第二篇后记中
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  where he said this: That wondrous Russian tongue that,
  他这样写到: 对我来说
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  it seemed to me, was waiting for me somewhere,
  美妙的俄语口音 似乎一直在某处等待着我
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  was flowering like a faithful springtime behind a tightly locked gate
  就像在紧闭的门后 努力盛开在春天的花儿一样
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  whose key I had held in safekeeping for so many years,
  而那扇门的钥匙我已经保管了好多年
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  proved to be nonexistent.
  最后才发现它是不存在的
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  And there is nothing behind the gate
  门后面除了烧焦的树桩和无望的秋天
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  but charred stumps and a hopeless autumnal distance,
  什么都没有
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  and the key in my hand is more like a skeleton key.
  我手中的钥匙更像一把万能钥匙
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  So, there's a kind of lost paradise of European culture which he can't get back,
  所以欧洲文化对他而言就像一座回不去的失乐园