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，同意他这种自暴自弃的态度。但是同他争辩，宣讲的处世方针。

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。

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。