But I should need to be a herd of elephants, I thought, and a wilderness of spiders, desperately referring to the animals that are reputed longest lived and most multitudinously eyed, to cope with all this.

但我需要成为一群大象，我想，和蜘蛛的荒野， 绝望地指着那些被认为寿命最长、眼睛最多的动物，来应对这一切。

Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo!

你的穿衣镜或抛光钢的大面积表面会被女佣人摩擦，会在各个方向上被细微而众多的划痕；但是现在在它对面放一支点燃的蜡烛作为照明中心，瞧！