Was it perfectionism? Was it, you know this very serious grimness? And you wanted to be more playful?

对完美主义的追求？严酷无？你想变得更顽皮活泼？

He had reached the stage in a young man's life when the grimness of the general human situation first becomes clear; and the realization of this causes ambition to halt awhile.

他已经到达年轻人生平第一次意识到人生无严峻的阶段；这种意识会使人暂时收住自己的野心。

And this is why all efforts to escape from the grimness of the present into nostalgia for a still intact past, or into the anticipated oblivion of a better future, are vain.

这就为什么想逃避严酷的现在、怀旧地躲进对仍然原封不动的过去，或者在遗忘中预先奔进一个更好的未来的一切努力终将徒劳。

The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.

当距离小，美丽的峰峦形状愈加真切时，莫里阿岛的美丽便完全呈现出来，但在你的船只从它旁边驶过时，你会发现它仍然重门深锁，把自己闭合为一堆人们无法接近的阴森可怖的巨石，没有人能闯入它那幽森的奥秘中去。