' Agnes, my dear sister, ' I said to her, ' promise me that you will never agree to marry that evil creature, for any reason! '
“阿格尼斯，我亲爱的姐姐，”我对她说，“答应我你决不同意嫁给那个恶毒的畜生，不管出于什么原因！”The animal dragged itself reluctantly out of his way, licking its shops with a tongue which seemed hardly to have the strength to curl.
那只畜生很不情愿把自己拖开，一边用它那条好像连卷起来的力气都没有了的舌头舔舔牙床。I screamed again and started pummeling the brute with my fists. It was like pummeling fur-covered wood and made as much impression.
我又尖叫起来，拳头不停地砸那个畜生，可感觉就象砸在用毛皮裹着的木头上。But, for all that, I was not going to sympathize with him--the brute beast!
可是，尽管这样，我还是不打算同情他——那个畜生！"Give us a light, " said the other bearer, "or I shall never find what I am looking for. "
“照着我，畜生，”那个人又说，“不然我就看不到要找的东西啦。”When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, old beast!
一个好好的人，年纪大了，他们便叫你做老冬瓜，老畜生！Now I'm trying to train the little beast, using little chunks of meat as treats.
现在，我要担当新任务，就是尝试训练这小畜生，以小肉块作奖励。No earthly consideration should ever again induce him to touch the paw of that impure and filthy animal.
尘世间的不论什么顾虑，都决不能使他再去碰这个肮脏污秽的畜生的爪子了。Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. --Dante Alighieri.
想想上帝为什麽创造你吧：他不是为了让你象畜生一样地活著，而是要追求美的和知识。--但丁。