As she trode along the foot-worn passages, and opened one crazy door after another, and ascended the creaking staircase, she gazed wistfully and fearfully around.

当她沿着脚踩破的通道行走，打开一扇又一扇疯狂的门，登上吱吱作响的楼梯时，她若有所思又恐惧地环顾四周。

I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.

看来，我并没有独创性去开辟一条通往耻辱和毁灭的新道路，而是以愚蠢的精确度走在老路上，不偏离被殴打的中心一英寸。

Of their legal tenure there could be no question; but old Matthew Maule, it is to be feared, trode downward from his own age to a far later one, planting a heavy footstep, all the way, on the conscience of a Pyncheon.

他们的合法任期是毫无疑问的；但令人恐惧的是，老马修·莫尔从他自己的时代踏入了更晚的时代，一路上踏下沉重的脚步，踏在品钦人的良心上。