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.

人们听见一种可怖的低语，却听不懂；它听来几乎像人的声音，却更像嚎叫，而非清晰的言辞。

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

这便是黑话。那些词语扭曲变形，打上了一种难以名状的、怪诞的兽性烙印。

One thinks one hears hydras talking.

人们仿佛听见九头蛇在交谈。

It is unintelligible in the dark.

在黑暗中，它令人无从理解。

It gnashes and whispers, completing the gloom with mystery.

它咬牙切齿，窃窃私语，让阴暗更添神秘。

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

它在苦难中是黑的，在罪恶中更黑；这两种黑暗交融在一起，便构成了黑话。

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

空气中的幽暗，行为中的幽暗，声音中的幽暗。

Let us have compassion on the chastised.

让我们怜悯那些受惩罚的人吧。