One example is the transformation of housework.

家务的改革就是一个例子
This is on page 179.

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"My west-door neighbor"-- west door--"who might have been a

"我西门的邻居" 西门 "可能是
businessman or a college teacher, or both, would speak to me

商人或大学老师抑或身兼二职
once in a while as he barbered some late garden blooms or watered his car,

他会在修剪花园或洗车的时候和我聊上几句
or, at a later date, defrosted his driveway

又或者某个晚些的时候给车道除霜时
(I don't mind if these verbs are all wrong)."

我不介意这些动词都用对了没有
Of course, the point is that they're all wrong.

当然事实上这些全错了
The point is that this clichéd suburban life of

问题是这些老套的郊区生活
mowing the lawn, washing the car and so on

比如修剪草坪洗车等等都被转化成
has been transformed--precisely because Humbert is a foreigner--

正是因为亨伯特是外国人
into something you can laugh at, something you can enjoy,

一些让人发笑的令人享受的事