It is not a case in which we can consult the police, and yet we are utterly at our wit's end as to what to do, and we feel in some strange way that we are drifting towards disaster.

这不是我们可以向警方求助的案子， 但我们完全无计可施。 去做，我们以某种奇怪的方式感到我们正在走向灾难。