the nearer I came to know them.

我便越觉得它们陌生
Beyond the tilled plain"-- in other words, the already worked-over,

在平原的根底即已开垦的家庭拥有的土地
domesticated plain-- "beyond the toy roofs,

以及玩具般的一排排屋顶以外
there would be a slow suffusion of inutile loveliness,

一副没用的可爱表情
a low sun in a platinum haze with a warm,

一轮低斜的太阳泛着白金色的柔光
peeled-peach tinge pervading the upper edge of a two-dimensional,

将温暖的像剥了皮的桃肉一样的颜色洒满这片二维天空
dove-gray cloud fusing with the distant amorous mist."

鸽子灰的云层上缘云和远处多情的雾融合在一起
"Inutile loveliness" is kind of the key word of Nabokov's technique,

"没用的可爱"是纳博科夫写作技巧的关键词
and he says the novel has as its only purpose to provide aesthetic bliss.

他的小说的唯一目的就是提供审美愉悦
So, here is inutile loveliness coming

因此没用的可爱
just from seeing the landscape as a stranger.

就是因为有如同陌生人看到这一片景色一样的心情
Humbert goes on:

亨伯特接着写道