Still, any kind of effort-making is better than inaction, and there is something sublime in seeing men working in dead earnest at anything, pursuing an object with glacier-like energy and persistence.

尽管如此，任何形式的努力总比无所事事好， 看到人们在任何事情上都非常认真地工作， 以冰川般的能量和毅力追求一个目标， 这是一种崇高的感觉。