There was something in its oppressive horizontality which too much reminded him of the arena of life; it gave him a sense of bare equality with, and no superiority to, a single living thing under the sun.

令人感到压抑的平坦中存某样东西，使人联起人生的角斗场；令他感到太阳下面，任何生都是完全平等的，谁也不比谁差。