Audiobook Dictation: “Why should one halt on the…”

Why should one halt on the way?

为何要半途止步呢？

Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of slang.

没有什么比这样赤裸裸地、在思想的光天化日之下，凝视黑话那可怕的蠕动更为阴郁的了。

It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the night which has just been torn from its cesspool.

事实上，它仿佛是一种为黑夜而生的可怖野兽，刚刚被人从它的污水坑里拖了出来。

One thinks one beholds a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares.

人们仿佛看见一片骇人的、活生生的、毛发倒竖的灌木丛，在颤抖、沙沙作响、摇晃、退回阴影、威胁并怒目而视。

One word resembles a claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase seems to move like the claw of a crab.

有的词像一只爪子，有的像一只熄灭而流血的眼睛，这句那句仿佛像蟹钳一样在蠕动。

Now, when has horror ever excluded study?

可是，恐怖何曾排斥过研究？

Since when has malady banished medicine?

从何时起疾病把医学驱逐了？

He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.

他就会像一个拒绝考察语言事实的语文学家，一个迟疑着不敢审视人性事实的哲学家。

For, it must be stated to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary phenomenon and a social result.

因为必须向不了解情况的人说明：黑话既是一种文学现象，也是一种社会产物。

What is slang, properly speaking?

确切地说，黑话是什么？