這類非人稱主語句使用了“擬人”修辭，讓無生命的事物具有人的感情。

But the complexion even of external things seemed to suffer transmutation as her

announcement progressed. The fire in the grate looked impish - demoniacally funny,

as if it did not care in the least about her strait. The fender grinned idly, as if it too

did not care. The light from the water-bottle was merely engaged in a chromatic

problem. All material objects around announced their irresponsibility with terrible

iteration. And yet nothing had changed since the moments when he had been

kissing her; or rather, nothing in the substance of things. But the essence of

things had changed.

但是隨著她的講述，甚至連外界事物的面貌也似乎發(fā)生了變化。爐橋里的火苗

露出惡作劇的樣子，變得兇惡可怖，仿佛一點(diǎn)兒也不關(guān)心苔絲的不幸。壁爐的

柵欄懶洋洋的，也似乎對一切視而不見。從水瓶里發(fā)出來的亮光，只是一心在

研究顏色的問題。周圍一切物質(zhì)的東西，都在可怕地反復(fù)申明，它們不負(fù)責(zé)任。

但是自從他吻她的時(shí)候以來，什么也沒有發(fā)生變化；或者不如說，一切事物在

本質(zhì)上都沒有發(fā)生變化。但是一切事物在本質(zhì)上又發(fā)生了變化。