Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him?

因此，他为什么要建造一个比他易带走的更笨重的住所呢？

Here and there, perchance, the walls may remain almost complete; but elsewhere may be only a shapeless mound, cumbrous with its very strength, and overgrown, through long years of peace and neglect, with grass and alien weeds.

许，这里那里的墙壁几乎完好无损。但其他地方一个无形的土丘， 它的强度非常笨重，并且由于长年的和平和疏忽而长满了杂草和杂草。