I do not know if the pimp's album may not have been another link in the daisy-chain; but soon after, for my own safety, I decided to marry. It occurred to me that regular hours, home-cooked meals, all the conventions of marriage, the prophylactic routine of its bedroom activities and, who knows, the eventual flowering of certain moral values, of certain spiritual substitutes, might help me, if not to purge myself of my degrading and dangerous desires, at least to keep them under pacific control.
我不知道鸨儿的影册是否又是幸运的雏菊花环上的一环；但不久，为了我自己的安全，我决定结婚。有规律的生活，自家烧出的菜香，婚姻的全部协约，能预防疾病的床第间活动方式以及，谁知道呢，一些道德价值或精神代替品的最终成熟，我想，即使不能涤除我可耻的危险欲望，至少也许能帮我将它们控制在平和状态。
A little money that had come my way after my father's death (nothing very grand -- the Mirana had been sold long before), in addition to my striking if somewhat brutal good looks, allowed me to enter upon my quest with equanimity.
父亲死后，给我名下留的一笔钱，加上我的引人注意、即使有几分野蛮也还漂亮的面孔，能准许我镇定自若地着手我的探寻。
After considerable deliberation, my choice fell on the daughter of a Polish doctor: the good man happened to be treating me for spells of dizziness and tachycardia.
经过相当深思熟虑，我的选择落在一位波兰医生的女儿身上：这个好人正巧给我治疗晕眩症和心跳过速。
We played chess: his daughter watched me from behind her easel, and inserted eyes or knuckles borrowed from me into the cubistic trash that accomplished misses then painted instead of lilacs and lambs.
我们下棋；他的女儿从她的画架后面朝我张望，又把向我借来的眼睛和肘放进她立体派艺术家的那堆垃圾里，那会儿画完的是少女，而不是紫丁香和小羊羔。
And this was my case. Well did I know, alas, that I could obtain at the snap of my fingers any adult female I chose; in fact, it had become quite a habit with me of not being too attentive to women lest they come toppling, bloodripe, into my cold lap.
我的情况就是这样。我非常知道，啊，我能轻而易举她获得我选中的所有成年女性；实际上，我几乎养成了不过意留心妇人的习惯，以免她们飘飘然、满面通红地坐到我冰冷的腿上。
All of which goes to show how dreadfully stupid poor Humbert always was in matters of sex.
所有这一切都将证明可怜的亨始特在性问题上总是多么不幸和愚蠢。
Had I been a fran?ais moyen with a taste for flashy ladies, I might have easily found, among the many crazed beauties that lashed my grim rock, creatures far more fascinating than Valeria. My choice, however, was prompted by considerations whose essence was, as I realized too late, a piteous compromise.
如果我是个普通的法国人，对华而不实的女人有鉴赏力的话，我就能在众多如痴如醉的美人中，很容易找出比瓦莱里亚更有媚力的生命体。但是，驱使我做出选择的是深思熟虑了谁是令人怜悯的牵累，而我对此发现得太晚了。
Let me repeat with quiet force: I was, and still am, despite mes malheurs, an exceptionally handsome male; slow-moving, tall, with soft dark hair and a gloomy but all the more seductive cast of demeanor. Exceptional virility often reflects in the subject's displayable features a sullen and congested something that pertains to what he has to conceal.
让我再平静地重复一遍：除去我的不幸，我过去是，现在仍然是一个英健出众的男性；稳健，高大，柔软的黑发，有一种抑郁但格钟诱人的风度。特别的男子气质在病症上则表现出某种阴郁、充血、他必须要隐匿的某些情状。