Ned Land didn't reply. His pursed lips and frowning brow indicated that he was in the grip of his monomania.

尼德·兰不回答。他紧闭的嘴唇，他紧蹙的眉毛，表示他心中有一个坚定的思想死死纠缠着他。

The sight of gold, the possession of gold, had become a monomania.

看到黄金，拥有黄金，成了一种执狂。

His monomania for serial killing did not meet everyone's definition of good taste, and from the start of his career, Bourgoin was often asked to explain his fixation.

他对连环杀人的狂热并不符合每个人对良好品味的定义，从他的职业生涯开始，Bourgoin 就常被要求解释他的痴迷。

Well-defined monomanias are not communicated; but when the madness consists in a distorted way of looking at everything, and when it lurks under all discussions, then it can and does injure the minds of those who live with it.

没有传达明确的执狂；但是，当疯狂以一种扭曲的方式看待一切，当它潜伏在所有的讨论中时，它就会并且确实会伤害那些与之共存的人的思想。