They did not last long; before and after them were cares, miseries, endurance multiform.

他们并有续久； 在他们之前和之后是各种式的忧虑、痛苦和忍耐。

To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

对他来说，人是一种拥有无数命和无数感觉的存在，是一种复杂的物，其自身承载着奇异的思想和激情遗产，其肉体被死者的可怕疾病所污染。