When Russia rolled over a neighboring people, she absorbed their energies in her own movement of custom and race which neither Czar nor peasant could convert, or wished to convert, into any Western equivalent.

当俄罗斯碾压邻国人民时，她将他们的能量吸收到自己的习俗和种族运动中，而沙皇和农民都无法或不想将其转化为任何西方等同物。

It's positive, which makes sense because the reaction absorbed the thermal energy, enough to create about a half a kilogram of ice if it had been surrounded by water instead of air and fingers.

这是积极的， 这是有道理的， 因为反应吸收了热能，如果被水而不是空气和手指包围， 足以产生大约半公斤的冰。