As you say, they've find themselves at the wrong end to some very daunting looking statistics.

正如你所说，他们发现自己在一些非常重要的统计数据中处落入了下风。

I came all this way just to get stuck at the wrong end of this rock pile?

我好不容易到了这儿，结果被困在这堆石头上了？

But this is to begin literary culture at the wrong end.

但这是以错误的方式开始文学文化。

I didn't want to end up at the wrong end of town, that's all.

我不想在城镇的错误尽头结束， 仅此而已。

I came a I this way just to get stuck at the wrong end of this rock pile?

我好不容易到了这儿 结果被困在这堆石头上了?

" Of course you did, and spoiled your story by beginning at the wrong end. Now, start right, and tell me how it all happened. I'm pining to know."

“你当然做到了，但是开错了头，把这故事给破坏了。现在以正确的方式告诉我这一切是怎么发生的。我太想知道了。”

The remarks relative to behaviour, though many of them very sensible, I entirely disapprove of, because it appears to me to be beginning, as it were at the wrong end.

关于行为的评论，虽然其中有许多是非常明智的，但我完全不赞成，因为在我看来它是开始的，就像是在错误的结束。