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

让我不去勉强我萎靡神，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不真诚、勉强微笑，对你行为也做出同样表情。

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.

我猜想，思特里克兰德在有形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。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，并发表了一段对任何人都不愉快勉强讲话。