Any right-thinking printer or any right-thinking publisher would scoff at the presumption of a poet who demanded such a thing.
任何一个思想健全的印刷商和出版商,都会嘲笑你去假定诗人需要这样的东西。
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。
The book--my publisher Princeton University Press wants to get it out before this crisis is over.
这本书-我的出版商,普林斯顿大学出版社,希望在这场危机结束之前出版它。
It's in response to what seems to have been an aesthetic reaction to the poem that the printer of Paradise Lost asked Milton, went back to Milton and asked him to append a note to the book's second printing -- to append a note that explains why the poem rhymes not.
这是弥尔顿对《失乐园》的出版商的答复,出版商问弥尔顿关于此诗的美学问题,他找到弥尔顿,让他给此诗的第二次印刷附一个,注解--附个注解解释这诗为什么不押韵。
One thing that fascinates me about them is that they are examples of how publishing houses rely on known names for making money.
他们有一件吸引我的事就是这是个,出版商如何利用名声来赚钱的例子之一。
It gets a really nice reception at a very good publisher.
受到颇有名气的出版商的青睐。
You rely on publishers and then they let you down.
你依赖出版商,但他们让你失望。
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。
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
The essay that you read was produced at the behest of his French publisher. They wanted him to write something that would make people feel better about the book, that would give some account of its origin and give some defense for its publication and its content.
你们所读到的那篇短文就是在法国出版商的要求下写的,他们希望他写些什么来让人们对这本书产生更多的好感,来交待这本书的缘起,并且为它的内容和它的出版进行辩护。
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