This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, uphold two.
这淤泥的稠度可以承受一个人的重量，显然不能承受两个人的。
2
Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and said to her, "Follow me!"
忽然，一个身材魁梧的人从人堆里冲出来，抓住妇人的泥污狼藉的缎衫，对她说：“跟我来。”
3
It was only by rolling in the mud of primitive practices that modern man could remove the stain of sinful science and materialism.