There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

没有什么比大海更单调的了，我不再对海盗的残忍感到奇怪。

-- James Russell Lowell 洛厄尔