So, this is Nabokov's beautiful evocation of how writer and reader meet at the summit of this misty mountain of the imagination.

那么，这就是纳博科夫的美好呼唤，是关于读者和作者,如何在想像的巅峰相遇。

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that's called the Imagination Playground and that's really fun for my daughter.

那个公园叫做“想象力游乐场”，我女儿觉得那里很有趣。

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I'm going to do that at the end for this reason: that it has such a special place in the imagination of our culture.

但是现在我放到最后讲是因为：,它在提供我们文化的想象力方面地位如此特殊。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You have to find out what "pulls up" means in the same way that the adult reader of Pleasures of the Imagination has to find out what "plastic" means.

我们得找出“停下来“究竟是什么意思,正如读《想象的愉悦》的大人,需要找到“塑料“的意思。

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In the imagination of white Southerners there were a lot more Haitian rebels coming into the South than actually ever got here.

在南方白人的想象中,来到南方的海地反叛者,比实际上要多得多

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The effectual truth of the matter, not the imagination of it or the utopia of it.

事务的有力事实面，而非妄想或乌托邦。

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But nonetheless, in the imagination, in the imaginaire, in the mental construction of these two countries, what we are not, that is Catholic, helps define their identity.

然而,在精神层面上,在精神体系的创立上,这两个国家的身份认同感,受到他们所否定的观念,即非天主教观念的影响

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But I would say that it so inspires the imagination,

但我想说，它可以激发想象力，

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The language of Homer and of Virgil and of Pindar and of Ovid had become an inextricable part of his literary imagination and of his consciousness in general.

荷马，维吉尔，品达尔和奥维德的语言,成为弥尔顿文学想象还有文学觉悟中,无法摆脱的一部分。

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But it's still a promise, and it's a promise of the powers of imagination and of poetry, and of poetry made out of play, of a child's play.

但始终还是一个希望，一个想象力和诗歌伟大力量的希望，这些诗是从玩中来的，从孩子们的玩耍中。

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It might not be the way they initially imagined, but one of the things that's great about being our society, being talented students have been the gifts of creative imagination as well as critical thinking.

或许这办法并不像他们原本所想的，但他们有一点是很出色的,无论是作为社会一分子还是有才能的学生,那就是批判思维和富有创新的想象。

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Another example. This captured my imagination-- when I was a kid, my dad told me about the invention of the chess game-- some of you know the story.

另一个例子，这个例子捕获了我的想象力-,在我小时，父亲给我讲象棋游戏的由来-,有些人可能知道这个故事。

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On the other hand, isn't imagination our best guide to logical possibility?

另一方面,想象是通向逻辑可能性的最好的向导吗

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The idea that emerged the memory of the '81-82 recession is very strong in our imagination because we think that it was caused by lax monetary policy by liberal thinking by the soft-hearted liberals who just didn't want to create any pain and suffering.

出现的观点,在我们的想象中,81-82年的经济衰退很严重,因为我们认为它是由于,松懈的货币政策，不拘一格的思想,那些仁慈的不想制造任何痛苦和疲劳的,自由主义者引发的。

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What is the role of the imagination?

想像又扮演着怎样的角色？

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Now, we've talked about the imagination.

我们讲完了想象力。

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