What tragedy depicts is one dike in conflict with another, a law that is not fixed, shifting and changing into its opposite.

悲剧描写的是一堤一堤，法则不定，变莫测。

And to know that everything around and underneath had been from prehistoric times as unaltered as the stars overhead, gave ballast to the mind adrift on change, and harassed by the irrepressible New.

同时知道，周围上下的一切，跟天上的繁星一样，从史前时期以来就未曾有过变动，这时候，世变无常不定的心灵小船就有了压舱石，因无法制止的日新月异受到困扰的心思就镇定下来。

Sometimes being in that apartment, enormous as it was, with Agnes's ever-changing moods and the swinging tensions between her and Mr. Gopnik, Ilaria, and his family felt impossibly claustrophobic.

有时，身处那间宽敞的公寓，面对阿格尼斯变莫测的情绪， 以及她与戈普尼克先生、伊拉利亚及其家之间摇摆不定的紧张关系， 竟让感到难以忍受的压抑。