Let me not force my flagging spirit into a poor preparation for thy worship.

让我不去勉强我的萎靡的神，来准备一个对你敷衍的礼拜。

If all of them are met with an insincere and strained smile, the same applies to your initiatives.

如果他们对你的所有笑话都报以不真诚、勉强的微笑，对你的主动行为也做出同样的表情。

He's barely entertaining or he's almost boring, bare… not quite barely entertaining, whatever's less than barely entertaining.

他勉强算得上有趣，或几乎可以说是无聊，近乎无趣… … 不完全达到勉强有趣的程度，就是比勉强有趣还要差一点的那种状态。

I fancy that Strickland saw vaguely some spiritual meaning in material things that was so strange that he could only suggest it with halting symbols.

我猜想，思特里克兰德在有形的事物上模模糊糊地看到某种神意义，这种意义非常奇异，他只能用很不完善的符号勉强把它表达出来。

'Oh, no, no! I won't have that'. Knight endeavoured to give his reply a laughing tone in Elfride's ears, and an earnestness in Stephen's: in both which efforts he signally failed, and produced a forced speech pleasant to neither.

'哦，不，不！我不会那样做的。奈特努力让他的回答在埃尔弗莱德耳中是一种笑声，在斯蒂芬耳中是一种严肃：在这两种努力中，他都明显失败了，并发表了一段对任何人都不愉快的勉强讲话。