司馬遷は(しばせんは)『史記(しき)』を完成(かんせい)させるためであり、李陵は(りりょうは)家族の(かぞくの)死と(しと)異民族の(いみんぞくの)将軍となる自己嫌悪(じこけんお)に悩んだ

Amidst the extreme physical and mental pain and humiliation of castration, Sima Qian even contemplated suicide, but survived through sheer tenacity. This was because he had the great mission to complete the immortal great historical record 'Shiki' (Records of the Grand Historian). Meanwhile, Li Ling, remaining in the land of Xiongnu, was deeply mentally afflicted between his despair over his family's execution and self-loathing for being treated warmly as a general of a foreign tribe.