To me it was his broken spirit that expressed itself, and I rebelled against his renunciation. But I kept my own counsel.

这一番话听着象是他意志消沉的自白，意他这种自暴自弃的态度。但是也他争辩，宣讲的处世方针。

And it rendered his aspect not the less, but more frightful, that it seemed not to express wrath or hatred, but a certain hot fellness of purpose, which annihilated everything but itself.

这使他的容貌并没有减少，反而更加可怕，因为它似乎是在表达愤怒或仇恨，而是一种强烈的意志消沉，它毁灭了一切，只留下了它自己。

Havinglost her courage, in a miserable state of demoralization, Meme had no other recourse but to bear up under it.

失去了勇气，在悲惨的意志消沉中，梅梅别无选择，只能忍受。