Nobody really believed he still had these sympathies, but the whole question was, why didn't he fess up?

没有人真的相信他仍怀有这些同情，但问题是，他为什么不坦率地承认？

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They look at you and they say,

他们同情地看着你说，

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So that's very sad, that part of his art was very very sad. But I still, I feel pathetic as I say in the last pages or so, but I never lost admire of his fortitude in going on and doing as much as he did.

这太令人伤感了,他的艺术也是很伤感的，我在书里最后几页表示了对他的同情，但是我,从来没有停止崇敬他,坚持不懈地做了这么多的精神。

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He is not a gentleman. But how magically his singing violin can conjure up a tendresse, a compassion for Lolita that makes us entranced with the book while abhorring its author.

他不是绅士，但神奇地他的小提琴声,能召唤出对Lolita的宠爱和同情,那让我们对这本书着迷，同时却在憎恨着作者。

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Yeats looks at them with pity, with admiration, with scorn.

叶芝同情地看待他们，半带崇拜，半带蔑视。

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