So, Humbert's lack of a moral vocabulary to understand what he's doing makes it seems like it's trivialized.

所以，Humbert缺乏对道德准则的理解,他所做的事情让这一切似乎被平凡化了。

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The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

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