Audiobook Dictation: “True history being a mixture of…”

True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.

真正的歷史是萬事萬物的混合，因此真正的歷史學家無所不涉。

Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus.

人不是只有一個圓心的圓；人是有兩個焦點的橢圓。

Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.

事實構成其中一個焦點，思想構成另一個。

There it clothes itself in word-masks, in metaphor-rags.

在那裡，它披上了詞語的面具、隱喻的破布。

In this guise it becomes horrible.

在這副裝扮下，它變得可怖。

One finds it difficult to recognize.

讓人難以辨認。

Is it really the French tongue, the great human tongue?

這真的是法語，那偉大的人類語言嗎？

Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of evil.

瞧，它已準備登台與罪惡對白，準備好扮演罪惡劇目中的一切角色。