Audiobook Dictation: “Upon the eighth night I was…”

Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door.

第八天夜里，我开门时比平常更加小心。

Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers--of my sagacity.

在那夜之前，我从未感到自己的能力——自己的精明——竟有这么大。

I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph.

我几乎抑制不住得意洋洋的心情。

To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts.

想想看，我就在那里，一点一点地推开门，而他连做梦也想不到我的秘密行动和心思。

I kept quite still and said nothing.

我一动不动，一言不发。

He was still sitting up in the bed listening;--just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.

他仍坐在床上倾听——就像我夜复一夜倾听墙里报死虫的声音那样。

I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart.

我说我很清楚。我知道老头的感受，也可怜他，尽管我心里在暗笑。

His fears had been ever since growing upon him.

从那以后，他的恐惧就与日俱增。