So, there are multiple ways, at multiple levels, that Nabokov is defending his work in this afterword. For one thing, he insults the publishers.

因此，在这篇后记中，纳博科夫在多种不同层面上,为他的作品辩护，一方面，他侮辱他的出版商。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You rely on publishers and then they let you down.

你依赖出版商,但他们让你失望。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well, it probably ends up having something to do with finance because as a poet you probably want to publish your poetry and you're going to be talking to publishers.

它很可能跟金融有关,因为作为一个诗人,你想要发表诗作,那你就得和出版商谈谈

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For those who are already engrossed in the reading of Ulysses, as well as for those who hesitate to begin it because they fear that it is obscure, the publishers offer this simple clue as to what the critical fuss is all about.

针对那些已经完全沉浸于这本书的人，以及那些因为害怕内容晦涩而还犹豫不决的人,出版商提供了一些简单的线索,告诉大家这部伟大之作的简要涵义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选