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

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

真正的历史是万事万物的混合，因此真正的历史学家无所不涉。

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

人不是只有一个圆心的圆；人是有两个焦点的椭圆。

Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.

事实构成其中一个焦点，思想构成另一个。

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

在那里，它披上了词语的面具、隐喻的破布。

In this guise it becomes horrible.

在这副装扮下，它变得可怖。

One finds it difficult to recognize.

让人难以辨认。

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

这真的是法语，那伟大的人类语言吗？

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，它已准备登台与罪恶对白，准备好扮演罪恶剧目中的一切角色。