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

让勉强萎靡精神，来准备一个对你敷衍礼拜。

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

如果他们对你所有笑话都报以真诚、勉强微笑，对你主动行为也做出同样情。

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.

猜想，思特里克兰德在有形事物上模模糊糊地看到某种精神意义，这种意义非常奇异，他只能用很完善符号勉强达出来。

'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，，！会那样做。奈特努力让他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，并发了一段对任何人都愉快勉强讲话。