Artistic originality here is likened to the murderer of convention.

这里艺术独创性被比作是扼杀作品的旧习
It's originality that destroys convention,

原创破坏了约定俗成
and here it's given that frisson of being a criminal too.

也是一种让人惧怕的犯罪
He's suggesting the criminality of real artistic innovation,

作者在此暗示艺术创新也成为了一种罪行
and by doing that, by using that language to describe

描述艺术独创性的同时
artistic originality, he allies artistic originality with the figure of Humbert.

作者将艺术独创性与亨伯特这个角色联系了起来
So, there are multiple ways, at multiple levels,

纳博科夫在后记中从多角度多层面
that Nabokov is defending his work in this afterword.

来对他的作品进行解读
For one thing, he insults the publishers.

从他的文字中看出他在痛骂出版商
He suggests that they didn't finish the manuscript because,

他认为出版商没有完整出版原稿
when his manuscript turned out not to be pornographic genre fiction,

因为出版商看到传统色情小说的成分的时候
they stopped reading, 'cause that's what they wanted,

就不再看下去了因为他们就想要抓这样的把柄呢