Severe, unsentimental, dry, so much so as to be maybe even a little bit funny.

严肃，不带感情色彩，晦涩难懂,如此这般以至于又多了一份滑稽有趣。

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The throb is of course undeniably associated with Humbert's rising desire in that physical way, and there is that emotionalized version of that, the throbbing heart of romantic cliche.

这种悸动当然与，Humbert渐强的身体欲望有关的,那带着一种感情色彩,那颗老生常谈的浪漫的悸动的心。

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