As a child that has been hurt skips about, making its muscles move in order to dull its pain, so Karenin needed mental activity to smother those thoughts about his wife which in her presence and in the presence of Vronsky, and amid the continual mention of his name, forced themselves upon him.
Como un niño que habiéndose hecho daño ejercita sus músculos para calmar el dolor, Alexey Alejandrovich necesitaba aquella actividad cerebral para apagar los recuerdos relativos a su mujer, que en presencia de ella y de Vronsky, y oyendo repetir este último nombre sin cesar, reclamaban su constante atención.