A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not

在他的自白书里自始至终闪现出一种力求诚实的愿望
absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning.

但这并不能免除他凶残奸诈的罪恶
He is abnormal.

他反常变态
He is not a gentleman.

他不是一位上流人士
But how magically his singing violin

可是他那琴声悠扬的小提琴
can conjure up a tendresse, a compassion for Lolita

多么神奇地唤起人们对洛丽塔的同情和怜悯
that makes us entranced with the book

从而使我们既对这本书感到着迷
while abhorring its author."

又对书的作者深恶痛绝"
Do you see that word "throbs"?

你注意到"闪现"这个词了吗
"A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession."

"在他的自白书里自始至终闪现出一种力求诚实的愿望"
"Throbs" is a word that Nabokov brings out over and over again, in multiple contexts,

"闪现"是纳博科夫在多层次的语境中反复使用的一个词汇
always connected somehow with this novel.

常会用来联系这本小说中的某些事