And what he seems to be saying is this: we are beings who are first and foremost dominated " by a desire for power.

他所说的似乎是像这样：,“我们是被追求权力欲望,所主宰的首要生物。

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There seems to be a doubt, a variety of doubts, about the foundations of what we can think about the basis of our opinions, that pervades theory, and is seen somehow or another to characterize its history.

有些事物，是我们思想的基础和看法的依据,但理论中却充斥着对它们的质疑，而这些质疑也被视为理论的特征之一。

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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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