"Viewed simply as a novel,

"如果把《洛丽塔》单纯看作一部小说
Lolita deals with situations and emotions that would remain

倘若书中的场面和情感的表达方式被闪烁其词
exasperatingly vague to the reader, had their expression been etiolated

陈辞滥调的手法弄得苍白无力那么这种场面和情感
by means of platitudinous evasions.

对读者就始终会显得令人恼火地含糊
True: not a single obscene term is to be found in the whole work.

的确:在整个作品中找不到一个淫秽的词
Indeed, the robust Philistine who is conditioned by modern conventions

当然粗鲁庸俗的读者受到现代习俗的影响
into accepting without qualms a lavish array of four-letter words in

总心安理得地接受一部平庸的小说中的大量粗俗下流的词语
a banal novel will be quite shocked by their absence here.

他们对这部作品在这方面的匮乏会感到相当吃惊
If, however, for this paradoxical prude's comfort,

然而如果为了让这种自相矛盾的故作正经的人感到舒适
an editor attempted to dilute or omit scenes that a certain type of

哪个编辑就试图冲淡或删去被某种类型头脑的人
mind might call aphrodisiac （And then he makes reference to the court

称作'色情'的场面（然后他援引了1933年《尤利西斯》
case in which Ulysses was ruled not to be obscene in 1933）

被法庭判定非淫秽读物的案例）