His project of killing Napoleon, and his calculations of the cabalistic numbers, and of the beast of the Apocalypse struck him now as incomprehensible and positively ludicrous.

• 现在他觉得，他那刺杀拿破仑的企图，他推算那神秘的数字和“启示录”上的那头兽，都是莫明其妙的，甚至是可笑的。