This is the realm of that mountain of imagination that I was showing

这段有关想象中的山脉的描绘
you in the passage from Good Readers and Good Writers.

出自《优秀读者与优秀作者》
This is Humbert's meditation on looking at a map

当亨伯特盯着地图
and seeing a range in which imagination can have pure play.

想象中展现的是壮丽的山脉
Now, as it turns out, if you keep reading there,

但是继续看下去不难发现
he's disappointed to find what the Appalachian mountains actually look like

他沮丧地发现美国的阿巴拉契亚山
in the United States.

真正的模样
He finds them much less romantic, a kind of garbage dump,

完全不浪漫如同一座冒烟的垃圾焚化炉
a very seedy stretch of the world.

仅仅是肮脏的世界的一隅
But what I want you to note is how that chapter break brings us

这里断章的手法让我门从
from Lolita's first efforts at motivating the romantic cliches;

洛丽塔奏效的浪漫陈词滥调
her first efforts immediately pay off in transporting him into that

她的诡计使得他马上陷入了