I cannot give my thoughts to reading; if I sat unoccupied, they would brood with melancholy fixedness on I know not what.

我无法专心读书； 如果我坐着闲着， 他们就会忧郁地沉思我不知道的事情。

Catherine on her side was silent for a while; she was looking at him while he looked, with a good deal of fixedness, out of the window.

一旁的凯瑟琳沉默了一会儿； 她看着他，而他则目不转睛地望着窗外。

I derived benefit from the task: it had kept my head and hands employed, and had given force and fixedness to the new impressions I wished to stamp indelibly on my heart.

我从这项任务中获益：它使我的头脑和双手得到充分利用，并使我希望在我心中留下不可磨灭的新印象的力量和固定性。

Then, extending the little volume, and giving the pitch of the air anew with considerate attention, David recommenced and finished his strains, with a fixedness of manner that it was not easy to interrupt.

然后，延长小音量，并以体贴的注意力重新调整空气的音调，大卫重新开始并结束他的曲目，以一种不容易打断的固定方式。