He says meditating has helped him set his records.

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Owen, they have a mat on a table, and he's sitting there, meditating, did I ever tell you about this?

欧文他们在桌上摆了一张垫子，他就坐在那里，冥想，我说过这件事吧？

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So, where is Nabokov in here? I think that's one of the places where Nabokov is. It's Nabokov meditating on this problem.

那么，在这一段中纳博科夫在哪里呢？我，认为这是他所,存在的一个地方，纳博科夫正在沉思这个问题。

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