For yet another year Adams lingered on these outskirts of the vortex, among the picturesque, primitive types of a world which had never been fairly involved in the general motion, and were the more amusing for their torpor.

亚当斯又在漩涡的外围逗留了一年，置身于风景如画、原始的世界之中，这些世界从未完全参与过一般的运动，它们的麻木更有趣。