Let me not force my flagging spirit into a poor preparation for thy worship.

让我不去勉强我的萎靡的精神，来准备一个对你敷衍的礼拜。

I fancy that Strickland saw vaguely some spiritual meaning in material things that was so strange that he could only suggest it with halting symbols.

我猜想，思特里克兰德在有形的事物上模模某种精神意义，这种意义非常奇异，他只能用很不完善的符号勉强把它表达出来。

'Oh, no, no! I won't have that'. Knight endeavoured to give his reply a laughing tone in Elfride's ears, and an earnestness in Stephen's: in both which efforts he signally failed, and produced a forced speech pleasant to neither.

'哦，不，不！我不会那样做的。奈特努力让他的回答在埃尔弗莱德耳中是一种笑声，在斯蒂芬耳中是一种严肃：在这两种努力中，他都明显失败了，并发表了一段对任何人都不愉快的勉强讲话。