Then Sauron was ashamed, and he was unwilling to return in humiliation and to receive from the Valar a sentence, it might be, of long servitude in proof of his good faith; for under Morgoth his power had been great.
然后索伦感到羞愧,他不愿意羞辱地回来,也不愿意从维拉那里接受长期奴役的判决,以证明他的诚意;因为在魔苟斯的统治下,他的力量一直很强大。