Silas Marner

the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity.

愚钝的心智很难将权力与仁慈联系在一起。

their imagination is almost barren of the images that feed desire and hope, but is all overgrown by recollections that are a perpetual pasture to fear.

他们的想象几乎荒芜，长不出喂养欲望与希望的意象，却杂草丛生，全是对恐惧无穷无尽的回忆。