His great ambition was to study law, but his father, who had a violent hatred for nihilists, made him go in for history and philology, or for " aesthetics" as Nejdanov put it with a bitter smile.
他的远大志向是学习法律,但他对虚无主义者怀有强烈仇恨的父亲却让他选择了历史和语言学,或者如内日丹诺夫苦笑所说的“美学”。