During the service he would sometimes listen to the prayers, trying to see in them a meaning which would not clash with his opinions, or, finding that he could not understand and had to disapprove of them, he would try not to listen but to occupy his mind with observation of what was going on or with recollections which passed with extraordinary clearness through his brain as he stood idly in the church.
Durante los oficios religiosos, Levin, escuchaba las oraciones procurando darles un significado no distinto de sus propias ideas, o, reconociendo que no podía comprenderlas y que debía censurarlas, procuraba no oírlas, abstrayéndose en pensamientos, observaciones y recuerdos que con particular claridad pasaban por su cerebro durante aquella ociosa permanencia en la iglesia.