But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

但对我们这些在监牢里度日的人们，生见人间的动静而只有悲哀，只能以肌体跳痛的挫，内心悲苦的短长来度量时日。

The proportions of these salts and minerals in our tissues is uncannily similar to seawater we sweat and cry seawater, as Margulis and Sagan have put it-but curiously we cannot tolerate them as an input.

盐和在我们肌体组织里的比例，与在海水里的比例也差多，正如马吉利斯和萨根说的，我们出的汗是海水，流的泊是海水。但是，说来也怪，我们却无法忍受外来的盐。