He described the deal as inexpressibly painful.
他称该协议令人极为痛苦。
He could not forget the subject, — could not pass from it to other things; he kept recurring to it through the evening, with an unwillingness to receive even the slightest unfavourable idea, which made Margaret inexpressibly sad.
他无法忘记这个话题,——无法从它转移到其他事情;整个晚他都在重复这件事,不愿意接受哪怕是最轻微不利想法,这让玛格丽特难过得无法形容。
This perpetual self-analysis, this mechanism of reason turning in the void, remained to him as a dangerous habit, which was " often, " in his own words, " to be detrimental to me in life" ; but by which his art has profited inexpressibly.
这种在虚无中转动理性机制, 对他来说仍然是一种危险习惯, 用他自己话说, 这“经常对我生活有害” 这种无休止自我分析, ; 但他艺术从中受益匪浅。