the sun also rises day13

1.mighty little fishing you did on them  trips.
你那几回出去,也没见钓到鱼啊.

2. do you know that gang of pilgrim fathers have cornered the dinning-car until half past three this afternoon.?
你知道那帮清教徒霸占餐车知道下午三点半吗?

3.there were wide fire-gap cut through the pines, and you could look up them like avenues and see wooded hills way off.
这是一条从松树中开出来的巨大防火带,你可以把它们看做大街, 甚至你还可以看到尽头的山丘上的森林.

 It's so difficult to me to understand the main idea of this novel, i mean, i know waht it talk about, it tells us jakeand brill go the sapin to have a trip, maybe fishing, by, train, and even they met some catholic, some piligrameage and priests in the train, and get some small conflict, and than? so what the authour wants to tells me? what is the poit of this novel?