As for his look, it was a natural cheerfulness striving against depression from without, and not quite succeeding.

至于他的神色，那是一种天生的欢乐与外来的抑郁抗争而没有成功的样子。

Dull and remorseful: it is a deadly combination, and he strove against it in vain till he was interrupted by the opening of the dining-room door.

沉闷和懊悔：这是一个致命的组合，他徒劳地抵抗它，直到他被餐厅门打开打断了。

This pain of the mind was much harder to strive against than any bodily pain I suffered; and Herbert, seeing that, did his utmost to hold my attention engaged.

这种心灵上的痛苦比我遭受的任何身体上的痛苦都更难克服。 赫伯特看到这一点， 竭尽全力吸引我的注意力。

143.To prove they themselves were not timid, the participants dared to sail across the Pacific, even though they had predicted they had to strive against different troubles, excluding storms and injury.

为了证明自己不是胆小鬼，参赛者敢于横渡太平洋，就算他们已经预计到除了风暴和受伤，他们还不得不和各种各样的麻烦抗争。144。Due to people’s anxiety about hunger issues and shrinking farmland， more fund and technology tend to be invested in the awkward problems associated with starvation and nutrition。由于担心饥荒和耕地面积越来越小，人们趋向于将更多的钱和技术投入令人头痛的饥饿和营养问题。