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
that Nabokov succeeds in putting to his own ends--

纳博科夫成功地达到了目标毫无疑问是好事
is not an unambiguous good, but a record of a kind of damage?

但是否是某种破坏的记录
Now, on Monday you're going to hear about this novel's confrontation

下周一要讲的是这部小说中的冲突
with the idea that art could be saving,

其立场就是艺术是一种拯救
that it could somehow be redemptive, but here I think is a hint

某种意义上艺术就是救赎但我认为这种冲突其实是种暗示
that it's something that the novel simply laughs at hollowly.

这部小说仅仅是是嘲笑空虚而已
And you might think of one last example.

思考一下另一个例子
all these things I've been saying about the delight in words

我说的所有关于言语的喜悦都出自一个