But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life.

但是太阳本身，不管多么仁慈，一般来说，对焦煤镇的仁慈不如严寒，而且很少有人专心观察它附近的任何区域而不造成更多的死亡而不是生命。