Like Pilgrim in John Bunyan's epic, I had come to a place where the straight way was lost.

正如约翰·班扬的史诗巨著《天路历程》中的朝圣之路，我到了这样一个地方，前方再无直行的道路。

Whereby you may see that Tom was no poet: but no more was John Bunyan, though he was as wise a man as you will meet in a month of Sundays.

由此你可以看出汤姆不是诗人：但约翰班扬也不是，尽管他是一个聪明的人，就像你在一个月的星期天里会遇到的那样。