it is also a demonstration of how literary tropes,

它同时也运用了诸如转义
literary language, little packaged bits of literature,

文学化语言和与文学相关联的手法
quotations, allusions,

例如引用用典等
lard the language that is available to this creature.

来润色这个角色的语言
His final reflections on page 12 suggest his ambition as a speaker,

在书中第12页他的最后一番反思反映了
and it looks a lot like a modernist ambition.

他作为讲述者的现代主义的野心
The bottom of page 12: What has fetched me across

第十二页最下面助我越过那
this dreadful sea is a single hope,

死亡之海的是一个简单的愿望

gift of my poor dead comrade: that

来自死去的同伴的礼物
You may be stronger-willed than I, and that by sheer force of

也许你意志比我坚定也许是我
concentration I may transmit to You, along with Your official Heritage,

传递给你专注的力量还有你那遗产
a private legacy of awful recollection and negative resolve.

以及充满可怕回忆和负面决定的私人遗产