Luckily, he was found just before death, where he resembled basically a really tanned walking skeleton.

幸运的是，快要死之前，他被人发现了，那时的他基本就像是一个晒成棕褐色的活骷髅架。

They could hardly believe what they saw: people who looked like walking skeletons.

他们简直不敢相信自己所看到的：那些看起来像行尸走肉的人。

One Union soldier later wrote, as we entered the place, a spectacle met our eyes that almost froze our blood with horror, stalwart men, now nothing but mere walking skeletons covered with filth and vermin.

一名联邦士兵后来写道，当我们进入这个地方时，一幕让我们几乎惊恐地凝固了血液的景象，坚强的人，现在只不过是行走的骷髅，身上满是污物和害虫。