What tragedy depicts is one dike in conflict with another, a law that is not fixed, shifting and changing into its opposite.

悲剧描写是堤堤，法则不定，变莫测。

And to know that everything around and underneath had been from prehistoric times as unaltered as the stars overhead, gave ballast to the mind adrift on change, and harassed by the irrepressible New.

同时知道，周围上下，跟天上繁星样，从史前时期以来就未曾有过变动，这时候，随着人世变无常而漂泊不定心灵小船就有了压舱石，因无法制止日新月异而受心思就镇定下来。

Sometimes being in that apartment, enormous as it was, with Agnes's ever-changing moods and the swinging tensions between her and Mr. Gopnik, Ilaria, and his family felt impossibly claustrophobic.

有时，身处那间宽敞公寓，面对阿格尼斯变莫测情绪， 以及她与戈普尼克先生、伊拉利亚及其家人之间摇摆不定紧张关系， 竟让人感难以忍受压抑。