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

无人走过、未完工道路高度来看， 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，让些胆怯没有出过门人，只凭端详躺在这片平静树林中这具死气沉沉、缩水变细骨架，就领会这头奇妙惊人大鲸，是多么徒劳和愚蠢啊。