There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now gave utterance.

发出抽搐叫喊中有一种绝望、几乎是疯狂调子。

To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such (spasmodic) actings last long, how much less can man!

地，地尚不能久，而况于人乎？

There was a spasmodic abandonment about it as if, in allowing herself to utter the sound, the woman's brain had authorized what it could not regulate.

这声长叹里有一种突然放任，似乎这女人已经认定这是没法控制，一下吐出了这声叹息。