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I think, moreover, that Nature was not to him that treasury of delight it was to his sisters.
此外，我認為大自然對于他并不像對于她妹妹那樣是快樂的源泉。
He expressed once, and but once in my hearing,
我聽到過一次，也只有—次，
a strong sense of the rugged charm of the hills,
他表示自己被崎嶇的小山深深地迷住了，
and an inborn affection for the dark roof and hoary walls he called his home;
同時對被他稱之為自己家的黑色屋頂和灰白的墻壁，懷著一種眷戀之情。
but there was more of gloom than pleasure in the tone and words in which the sentiment was manifested;
但是在表達這種情感的音調和語言中，隱含的憂郁甚于愉快。
and never did he seem to roam the moors for the sake of their soothing silence --
而且他從來沒有因為要感受一下荒原舒心的字靜而漫步其中，
never seek out or dwell upon the thousand peaceful delights they could yield.
一從來沒有去發現或談及荒原給人千百種平靜的樂趣。
Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind.
由于他不愛交際，我過了一些時候才有機會探究他的思想。
I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton.
我聽了他在莫爾頓自己的教堂講道后，對他的能力有了初步的了解。
I wish I could describe that sermon: but it is past my power.
我希望能描繪一下他那次講道，但無能為力，
I cannot even render faithfully the effect it produced on me.
我甚至無法確切表達它給我的印象。
It began calm -- and indeed, as far as delivery and pitch of voice went,
開頭很平靜一—其實，以講演的風格和語調而言，
it was calm to the end:
那是自始至終很平靜的:
an earnestly felt, yet strictly restrained zeal breathed soon in the distinct accents,
一種發自肺腑而嚴加控制的熱情，很快注進了清晰的語調，
and prompted the nervous language.
激發起了生動的語言，
This grew to force -- compressed, condensed, controlled.
話漸漸地變得有力起來——簡練、濃縮而有分寸。
The heart was thrilled, the mind astonished, by the power of the preacher:
牧師的力量使人內心為之震顫，頭腦為之驚異，
neither were softened.
但兩者都沒有被感化。
Throughout there was a strange bitterness;
他的講演自始至終有著一種奇怪的痛苦，
an absence of consolatory gentleness;
缺乏一種撫慰人的溫柔。
stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines -- election, predestination, reprobation -- were frequent;
他不斷嚴厲地提到加爾文主義——上帝的選拔、命定和天罰，
and each reference to these points sounded like a sentence pronounced for doom.
每次的提醒聽起來仿佛是在宣布末日的來臨。
