The Yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down.

禁锢着育空河的坚冰正被他奋力挣破。

Such verbal generosities were in fact only a humbugging disguise of the inexorable conventions that tied things together and bound people down to the old pattern.

这种口头上的慷慨实际上只是对将事物捆绑在一起并将人们束缚在旧模式中的无情习俗的掩饰。