by a cosmopolitan European for his own ends,

对无知的美式的天真的绑架
ends which are seen as a kind of perversion?

这样的目标是不是一种变态
That's that element of violence that keeps coming back,

这种暴力元素经常出现
the trail of slime across this dream of transforming reality,

通过淤泥小径来到梦中变形的现实
in this Joycean way, into something saved,

以乔伊斯的方式达到拯救的目的
the dream of turning fate, the fate of a dead mother--or,

改变命运的梦死去母亲的命运
in Nabokov's own case, a father killed by assassination,

或者以纳博科夫本人为例一个被暗杀的父亲
a brother killed in a concentration camp--

在集中营被杀害的兄弟
turning that into this beautifully worked out, playful system,

以双关语意象和一系列修辞为特征
defined by puns, and images, and a spell of rhetoric.

将这一切转化为一种良好地呈现出来的有趣的系统
In other words, could it be that all of this modernist technique

换句话说是不是所有这些现代派的手法
that Humbert succeeds in putting to his own ends--

都被亨伯特成功运用来达到他的目标