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The skies above them were silent and deserted.
燈塔上的天空寧靜寥落。
It was over Selborne, Bordon and Farnham that the helicopters now ceaselessly hummed and roared.
此時直升機正在塞爾波恩、波爾頓和法恩漢上空不斷嗡嗡著。轟鳴著。
The Savage had chosen as his hermitage the old light-house which stood on the crest of the hill between Puttenham and Elstead.
野蠻人選擇的隱居地是聳立在帕特南和愛爾絲特之間的小山頂上的一座舊燈塔。
The building was of ferro-concrete and in excellent condition–almost too comfortable the Savage had thought when he first explored the place,
那建筑物是鋼骨水泥做的，目前情況依舊良好。野蠻人第一次探索這地方時曾經嫌它太舒服，
almost too civilizedly luxurious.
文明到了幾乎奢侈的程度。
He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline, purifications the more complete and thorough.
但他向自己保證一定要以更加嚴格的自律和更加脫胎換骨的滌罪進行彌補，以此安撫自己的良心。
His first night in the hermitage was, deliberately, a sleepless one.
他在隱居地的第一夜故意沒有睡覺，
He spent the hours on his knees praying, now to that Heaven from which the guilty Claudius had begged forgiveness, now in Zuni to Awonawilona,
只是一個小時接一個小時地跪在地上祈禱，時而向有罪的克勞狄斯曾向它乞求饒恕的天庭祈禱；時而用祖尼語向阿沃納微羅那祈禱，
now to Jesus and Pookong, now to his own guardian animal, the eagle.
時而向耶穌和普公祈禱，時而向他的守護生靈鷹隼祈禱。
From time to time he stretched out his arms as though he were on the Cross,
他不時地平伸了雙臂，好像上了十字架，
and held them thus through long minutes of an ache that gradually increased till it became a tremulous and excruciating agony;
伸得胳臂生疼，越來越疼，疼得發抖，難以忍受。
held them, in voluntary crucifixion, while he repeated, through clenched teeth (the sweat, meanwhile, pouring down his face),
他平伸著手，自愿上了十字架，同時咬緊牙關，痛得汗流滿面。
"Oh, forgive me! Oh, make me pure! Oh, help me to be good!" again and again, till he was on the point of fainting from the pain.
“啊，饒恕我吧！啊，保佑我純潔！幫助我善良！”他一再地說，直到痛得幾乎昏死過去。
When morning came, he felt he had earned the right to inhabit the lighthouse;
到了早上，他覺得已經取得了在燈塔里居住下去的權利；
yet, even though there still was glass in most of the windows, even though the view from the platform was so fine.
盡管那里大部分窗戶還有玻璃，而從平臺上看出去景色也太美麗。
For the very reason why he had chosen the lighthouse had become almost instantly a reason for going somewhere else.
讓他選擇燈塔的理由幾乎立即引導他走上了另外一條路。
He had decided to live there because the view was so beautiful,
他選擇到那兒去居住，因為那兒有十分美麗的景物，
because, from his vantage point, he seemed to be looking out on to the incarnation of a divine being.
因為從他那有利的地位看去，似乎可以看見神靈的圣體。
