They did not last long; before and after them were cares, miseries, endurance multiform.

并没有持续多久； 之前和之后各形式的忧虑、痛苦和忍耐。

To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

对来说，人拥有无数生命和无数感觉的存，复杂的多形生物，其自身承载着奇异的思想和激情遗产，其肉体被死者的可怕疾病所污染。