They did not last long; before and after them were cares, miseries, endurance multiform.

他们并没有持续多久； 在他们前和各种形式的忧虑、痛苦和忍耐。

To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

对他来说，人一种拥有无生命和无的存在，一种复杂的多形生物，其自身承载着奇异的思想和激情遗产，其肉体被死者的可怕疾病所污染。