He loved nothing better than a vertical path; but this way seemed indefinitely prolonged, and instead of sliding along the hypothenuse as we were now doing, he would willingly have dropped down the terrestrial radius.

他最喜欢垂直的小路。但这条路似乎无限期地延长，他不会像我们现在那样沿着斜边滑动，而是心甘情愿地沿着地球半径下降。