The marsh had been even more desolate from the height of that untravelled, unfinished roadway.

从那条无人走过、未完工的道路的高度来看， 沼泽地更加荒凉。

How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood.

于是，我心想，让那些胆怯的没有出过门的人，只凭端详躺在这片平静树林中的这具死气沉沉、缩水变细的骨架，就想正确领会这头奇妙惊人的大鲸，那是多么徒劳和愚蠢啊。