I wasn't good at it, and I didn't like studying it.
我不精于此道, 也不爱去学它。
Yes, and you may stay there longer.
对,而且你也许会在那儿住久一些。
It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manner with would make a modern climber shudder at the thought,