Audiobook Dictation: “One perceives, without understanding it, a…”

One perceives, without understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, but more nearly resembling a howl than an articulate word.

人們聽見一種可怖的低語，卻聽不懂；它聽來幾乎像人的聲音，卻更像嚎叫，而非清晰的言辭。

It is slang. The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic bestiality.

這便是黑話。那些詞語扭曲變形，打上了一種難以名狀的、怪誕的獸性烙印。

One thinks one hears hydras talking.

人們彷彿聽見九頭蛇在交談。

It is unintelligible in the dark.

在黑暗中，它令人無從理解。

It gnashes and whispers, completing the gloom with mystery.

它咬牙切齒，竊竊私語，讓陰暗更添神秘。

It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang.

它在苦難中是黑的，在罪惡中更黑；這兩種黑暗交融在一起，便構成了黑話。

Obscurity in the atmosphere, obscurity in acts, obscurity in voices.

空氣中的幽暗，行為中的幽暗，聲音中的幽暗。

Let us have compassion on the chastised.

讓我們憐憫那些受懲罰的人吧。