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.

在那令感到压抑的平坦中存在某样东西，使生的角斗场；令他感到在太阳下面，任何生物之间都是完全平等的，谁也不比谁差。