我的回答是，不管他多么机敏地呈现他的矛盾，他都不能使我相信一个机械的木偶能够比一个活人的身体更优雅。

My reply was that, no matter how cleverly he might present his paradoxes, he would never make me believe a mechanical puppet can be more graceful than a living human body.

youdao

我的意思是，大概，你准备好了拿活人试一试吧。

I mean, presumably, you're ready to try this on humans.

youdao

我扣上窗子；我把他前额上长长的黑发梳梳；我想合上他的眼睛，因为如果可能的话，我是想在任何别人来看前消灭那种可怕的，像活人似的狂喜的凝视。

I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes: to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, lifelike gaze of exultation before anyone else beheld it.

youdao

You tell me, "Oh there's going to be somebody alive.

你告诉我“未来有个活人是你。

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