He sees with one eye closed and with one eye opened the futility of much that goes on around him and of his own endeavors, but barely retains enough sense of reality to determine to go through with it.

• 他睁着一只眼，闭着一只眼，看穿了他周遭所发生的事情和他自己的努力的徒然，可是还保留着充分的现实感去走完人生的道路。