That action of memory which he had tried to set going, and had abandoned in despair, had suddenly completed itself without conscious effort — a common experience, agreeable as a completed sneeze, even if the name remembered is of no value.
那个他曾试图启动,却在绝望中放弃的记忆动作,在没有有意识的努力下突然完成了——一种常见的体验,像打完喷嚏一样令人愉快,即使记住的名字毫无价值。