广东财经大学-804英语写作与翻译【2018】考研真题
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考试年度：2018
年 考试科目代码及名称：804- 英语写作与翻译 ( 自命
题 )
适用专业：050201 英语语言文学
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Part I Writing （100 分）
（1）Summary Writing. (1 题，共 40 分)
Directions: Please read the following passage, and write a
summary around 120-150 English words without copying the
complete sentences from the text.
Not long ago, I took in one of the conversations you’re not supposed to have. It turned on
whether Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, really desired underage girls. The usual arguments
came out: Nabokov was a master of personae, and Humbert Humbert a game to him. Kinbote,
analogous narrator of Pale Fire, didn’t make you think Nabokov loved boys. The late novels were
Nabokov’s allegories of the seductions of aestheticism, which transfigures the forbidden into the
beautiful; or moral paintings of our acceptance of crime, when crime is presented alluringly. So
love of the wrong subject becomes a metaphor for art, ethics, personality, and so forth.
I was reluctant to say that I felt these explanations were inadequate and even in bad faith. The
trouble with Lolita is plainly its ability to describe what a sexual twelve-year-old looks like. What
her dress is like when it brushes her knees, what her toes are like with painted nails, how the color
sits on the plump bow of her lips—the phrase for these is that it is “too real”; that’s the scandal. It
continues to be the scandal fifty years after publication, and it will be a scandal whenever adult
acknowledges the capacity upend his vision and see a child, protected larval stage of the organism,
as a sexual object. The girl is still a child, only now she is a sex child. Yet this makes me feel
Nabokov was not a pedophile but something he is not credited with being—a social critic.
You, too, see it, or should. The trend of these fifty years has been to make us see sexual
youth where it doesn’t exist, and ignore it as it does. Adults project the sex of children in lust, or
examine children sexually with magnifying glasses to make sure they don’t appeal to us. But these
lenses became burning glasses. The hips of Betty Grable melted and disappeared. The breasts of
Marilyn Monroe ran off and were replaced with silicone. The geography of fashion created new
erogenous zones—pelvic midriff, rear cleavage—for dieters starving off their secondary sex
characteristics, and for young teens, in the convergence of the exerciser and the pubescent child.
The waif and pixie became ideal. Mama and daughter look the same again before the bedroom
mirror—not dressed up in Mama’s pearls and heels this time, but in children’s wear. The dream
belongs to sixteen, or to those who can starve themselves to sixteen.
The critic Philip Fisher used to note that Lolita, tightly plotted as it is, repeats one scene
twice. Humbert spies a lit window far opposite. Because he longs to see a nymphet, he sees one.
The wave of arousal returns, its tide dampening him up to his knees. As he nears the climax, the
form is refocused as an adult woman or man. Disgusting! But this is the simple inversion of a
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