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.

那令人感到压坦中存某样东西，使人联起人生角斗场；令他感到下面，任何生物之间都是完全等，谁也不比谁差。