Even though he had escaped the draft and prison, he seemed caught in the throes of a depression, like that which Turgenev said only the very young know and which has no apparent reason.

虽然他逃过了服兵役和服刑，但他似乎陷入了一种郁闷的情绪，那是一种屠格涅夫所说的“只有某些特别的年轻人才知道的一种莫名的忧郁”。