We trudged the deserted road for a long time.

我们在荒芜的路上跋涉了很长时间.

The Argentine conscript border guards were as charmless a bunch of fellows as you'd expect to find dispatched to a deserted road on top of a freezing cold mountain.

阿根廷征召来的边界警卫实在无趣，你想象得到这样一群倒霉的家伙，被派往彻骨寒冷的山顶，在沙漠公路上当差，还要他们怎么样呢？