If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same-crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.

如果她活下来， 那份温柔要么会从她身上被压垮，要么——表面上看起来是一样的——深深地压入她的内心， 再也无法表现出来。

And at the heart of the nebula will be a tiny beacon of light, the remnant of a star once more than a billion and a half kilometres across that has been crushed out of all recognition by gravity.

而在星云的核心区会出现一个微小的光点，那是一颗曾有 15 亿千米直径的恒星，这个漂浮宇宙中的星体在引力的作用下已然面目全非。