Does that make any difference?

有任何意义么
Does that make any difference to how we're to judge him?

造成了我们对他的判断有所改变吗
And we are the judges: "ladies and gentlemen of the jury."

而且我们是法官: "陪审团的女士们和先生们"
We are, in a way, invited to judge,

某种意义上我们被邀请去审判
even though he's begging us not to at every moment.

尽管他央求我们不要审判所有事情
So, it's a choice on Nabokov's part to foreground the question of judgment from moment one,

纳博科夫选择从一开始就强调审判的问题
and then for him to invoke multiple kinds of exculpatory narratives.

然后再引入多重辩解的叙述
He's planting them in there for us to find.

他设计这些等着我们发现
"Oh, when?"

"啊是什么时候呢"
In childhood.

在童年时
By safely locating that precursor in his own childhood when,

将那位前任安排在他的童年时期是项安全的举措
as he says, he was her equal, where there was no crime,

因为如他所说他是她的同龄人那时还没有邪念