However, to prevent such a tragical Catastrophe for the present, I shall make a retreat, and leave you Master of the field.

不过，为了暂时避免这样惨烈的劫难， 我还是退下吧， 留给域主你一人。

There were three guests besides myself, two priests who were passing that way and had stopped off for dinner and an elderly, grouchy Frenchman who was making a retreat.

除了我之外，还有三位客人，两位牧师从那里经过，停下来吃晚饭，还有一位年迈的、脾气暴躁的法国人正在隐修。

At one moment he thought, " I will write a letter: I prefer that to any circuitous talk;" at another he thought, " No; if I were talking to him, I could make a retreat before any signs of disinclination" .

有那么一刻，他想：“我要写一封信：我宁愿那样写，也不愿任何迂回的谈话；”在另一次他想，“不；如果我在和他说话，我可以在任何不愿意的迹象之前撤退”。