Virginia creepers, asters, and other colonial exotica to a delighted English gentry.

弗吉尼亚匍匐植物、紫菀，以及其他来自殖民地的奇花异草，令他们欣喜万分，他自己也挣了不少钱。

It opens, then, certain nuggets, literary and artistic nuggets which they have taken for granted, which they have relegated to the exotica. So it's a symbolic prize, and I view it as such ...

这样的作品展示出了宝贵的内涵，这种内涵既有文学意义，也有艺术意义，但之前却没有受到重视，但作家却能将他们展现为新奇事物。所以这样才是有标志意义的奖项，这是我眼中的诺贝尔文学奖。