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

This was even longer than that. But also I would have to write this thing for one of the classes,

去年那段时间比高中的学习时间还长。而且我们还要写一些东西，

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What America do we see? I'm going to look back to a passage I talked about in a different vein last time, on 26 and 27, just for one quick example.

看到什么了呢？，我们看到了什么样的美国？，我想回到,上一次讲另一个脉络时讲到的段落，在26到27页。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You can think of it as this reaction to the problem of lateness that accounts for one of the invocation's most distinctive features, and that's the repetition of the word "first."

你们可以把弥尔顿在这首诗中对“晚“的回应,当做这首诗最明显的特征之一，这表现在他反复使用“初/先“一词上“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Romans maintained peace, for one thing, by leaving local populations pretty much alone when it came to local customs, religions, and living arrangements.

首先，为了维护和平，罗马人没有过多干涉当地居民,对于当地风俗，宗教，居住安排，给予极大自由。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So we know that it'll go up for one second then it will turn around and come back.

我们知道了,物体在上升一秒后开始下降

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

If you are a rat and you have toxoplasmosis, you are perfectly healthy except for one thing.

如果你是老鼠，你体内有弓浆虫，你非常健康，除了一点。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And this poem could be the basis of a first paper, a topic for one.

这首诗可能会是第一篇论文,的基础，一个话题。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I'm still trying to work out a role for you so hang on for one sec.

我还在想给你配个什么角色,先等一会儿吧。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

If there's a tie, half the voters at that position go for one of the candidates and half of them go for the other.

如果是平均,一半的选票划给其中一个候选人,另一半给另一个候选人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That's because the banker is thinking, if I have this amount right now and I invest it for one year, then what do I have.

那是因为银行认为,如果我现在持有这些钱并将其投资一年,然后我会得到什么

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

For one thing they're not dressed like civilized people in a dress, they're wearing pants.

首先他们的衣着和文明人不同,他们穿短裤

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But think with me just for one second about the idea of progress.

但是请跟我思考一下,进步的观念

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And that is not true for one electron atoms.

对于单个原子来说，不是这样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The reason why we need positive psychology is to shift the pendulum from the 21:1 ratio that we have today: for every one study on depression or anxiety, we have 21 studies on-- sorry, for one study on happiness or wellbeing, we have 21 studies on depression and anxiety.

我们需要积极心理学是为了改变,现在的21比1这个比率：,每有一项关于抑郁或焦虑的研究，就有21项，对不起，应该是每有一项关于快乐或幸福的研究，就有21项关于抑郁或焦虑的研究。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I wish that I could live in their life for one day, but you know, they're just things.

我希望我可以过一天他们的生活，但是你知道，就是东西而已。

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