For Swann's affection for Odette still preserved the form which had been imposed on it, from the beginning, by his ignorance of the occupations in which she passed her days, as well as by the mental lethargy which prevented him from supplementing that ignorance by imagination.
Zeren Swannen amultsutasunak betikoan baitzirauen, hasieratik beretik, Odettek bere egunak zertan enplegatzen zituenari buruzko bere ezjakintasunak, batetik, eta ezjakintasun hori irudimenaz ordezkatzea eragozten ziòn buru-nagikeriak, bestetik, eratua ziotèn aiurrikoa.