He compares the prose style in with a muscle-bound man,

他将《洛丽塔》的文风比作一个壮硕的男子
a man whose body is bulked up purely for aesthetic reasons,

一个完全出于审美原因而身材健美的男人
for only the purpose of looking a certain way, that the bodybuilder is

其外形仅为此目的存在所以这位
not that person who's going to go out and use their muscles to do some job.

健美爱好者并不是出去以秀肌肉谋生
It is simply there to be looked at, to be oiled up and presented and displayed.

仅仅是为了博得众人一瞥身上涂好油也就为了展览而已
That's how Amos describes the prose style of Lolita.

这就是艾米斯对《洛丽塔》文风的看法
So, I want you to keep that image in your mind.

我要你们记住这种观点
The question of the relationship between the person and the aesthetic in

关于《洛丽塔》人物和审美趣味之间关系的问题
is going to be at the heart of my overarching argument about the novel.

将会成为我首要讨论的核心内容
Today, you're not going to see much of that.

不过今天我不会涉及太多此问题
What I want to do today-- since we have three lectures on --

既然我们有三节课的时间来讲《洛丽塔》
what I want to do today is simply to begin to open the text for you:

今天我要做的仅是引领你们进入文本: