The knight's move--which is just a playful way of describing where the window is, right-- the knight's move is nonetheless a kind of wound or damage. So, even as it's the prototype for originality, it's also something very disturbing and harmful.

一位骑士走过，这只是开玩笑地描述,窗户的位置，对，骑士的走过不可能造成,受伤或损害，所以，即使作为独创性的模板，它还是包含一些干扰和有害的成分。

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That is an extraordinary claim for the poem's originality.

这也是一种对诗篇独创性的独特的宣告。

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Artistic originality turns out to be the murderer, to the fans' disgust.

独创的艺术成了令读者反感的谋杀者。

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Artistic originality here is likened to the murderer of convention.

而在这里独创艺术就像是谋杀了旧习的杀手。

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So, anyway. Okay. But now, that modernist tradition is something that Nabokov owes a lot to, but he always tries to distinguish himself from it. For Nabokov, the highest value is originality.

好吧，不管怎样，但现在，现代主义传统,很大程度得归功于纳博科夫，虽然他一直试图把自己,从中区别开来，对纳博科夫而言，最高尚的价值是独创性。

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Milton had borrowed this claim for an absolute originality.

弥尔顿为了追求极致的创新而借用了这一说法。

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