When Morel had drunk some vodka and eaten a bowl of porridge, he suddenly passed into a state of morbid hilarity, and kept up an incessant babble with the soldiers, who could not understand him.

• 莫雷尔喝了伏特加和一碗稀饭之后，突然异乎寻常地快活起来，不停地对那些听不懂他的语言的士兵嘟嘟噜噜。