当介绍食物不再是任务的时候,他的语言中就闪耀着华丽、风趣的隐喻。作为运用隐喻的大师,伟大的俄裔美籍作家纳博科夫在小说中利用食物来渲染效果,比如,他用“牡蛎似的”一词来形容绿色眼睛的质感,色彩与光泽。在《洛丽塔》中,描写亨伯特和洛丽塔辗转的汽车旅馆时,纳博科夫写到:四周是多结的松木,其金褐色的光泽让洛丽塔想到了油炸小鸡的骨 When introducing food is no longer a task, his language is glittering gorgeous, funny metaphor. As a metaphorical master, the great Russian-American writer Nabokov uses food to render effects in novels. For example, he uses the term “oyster-like” to describe the texture, color and luster of green eyes. In “Lolita”, describing Huntsman and Lolita motels, Nabokov wrote: Around the multi-knot pine, its golden-brown luster to Lolita think of the fried small Chicken’s bone