A miserable incongruity was apparent in the circumstance of a strong mind practising its unerring archery upon a heart which the owner of that mind loved better than his own.

一个可悲的不协调是明显的，在一个坚强的头脑中练习它准确无误的射箭在一颗心上，而这颗心的主人爱他胜过爱他自己的心。

And he thought—he could not help thinking—that his death would be a deliberate loss to earth of good material; that such an experiment in killing might have been practised upon some less developed life.

他想——他忍不住想——他的死是对地球的一种故意损失。这样的杀戮实验可能已经在一些欠发达的生命中进行过。