I felt a great emptiness inside, as if I had been searching for some glimpse, not outside but within myself, and had discovered that there was nothing to be found.

我感到内心极大的空虚，好像我在一直搜寻的短暂的一瞥是来自我的内心而不是外在，结果发现什么都没有找到。

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Much of the world's sea traffic may have passed through the Atlantic in the interim, but to those afloat on it in the following centuries, it has often been a great emptiness.

世界上海上运输的船只会暂且经过大西洋，但是几个世纪以来，对那些在海上漂流的人来说，大洋上总是空无一物。

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So every time I try to talk about him, to bring him back to life, as I'm doing now, I feel a great sadness, an emptiness, as if I were on a cliff, and I have to be silent, or else drink.

所以每次我提起他的时候，都像我现在这样，想使他复活过来，我感到非常悲伤，非常空虚，就好像我站在悬崖峭壁上，我必须默不作声地站着，或者喝口酒壮壮胆子。

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He had the sensation of a great type of hole or emptiness falling through him and continuing to fall and never hitting the floor.

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