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）
"one would have to forego the publication of Lolita

"那么就只好完全放弃出版《洛丽塔》了
altogether, since those very scenes that one

因为这些场面虽然可能会被某些人
might ineptly accuse of sensuous existence of their own are the most

不适当地指责为本身就会激起情欲
strictly functional ones in the development of a tragic tale tending

但它们却是一个悲剧故事的发展过程中最起作用的场面
unswervingly to nothing less than a moral apotheosis.

而这个悲剧故事坚定不移的倾向不是别的正是尊重道德
The cynic may say that commercial pornography makes the same claim.

玩世不恭的人也许会说商业化的色情文学也如此声言
The learned may counter by asserting that HH's impassioned confession is

有学问的人也许会说'亨·亨'的充满激情的忏悔