I might with a word have loosened the screw of the steel vice that was crushing his brain; but that word I would not speak.

我可能只需要一句话就可以松开正在压碎他大脑的钢虎钳的螺丝。但这个词我不会说。

I learnt at Greenwich how to correct them—so kind they have been to me there! —and so I have been loosening the screws and gently shifting the glass, till I think that I have at last made the illumination equal all round.

我在格林威治学会了如何纠正它们——他们在那里对我太好了！——所以我一直在松开螺丝，轻轻地移动玻璃，直到我认为我终于使周围的照明均匀。