" Let us gather tundra grass and thatch the roof, " Maud said.

" 我们还是去弄苔原草苫屋顶吧。" 茅德说。

No smoke curled from the rooftops, no children quarreled in the streets, no dragons were fighting in the thatch.

屋顶上没有滚滚浓烟，街上没有孩子们吵架，茅草屋里没有龙在打架。

The only way to cover the other six ricks was by thatching them with straw，and this was a long and difficult job to do alone.

尔离开谷仓，回到麦垛边，用农场上的遮布把其中两垛上。若想把其他六垛也起来，唯一的办法便是用稻草，可一个人单独干，既费时又费力。

" A fishing village, just a little place, north along the shore. Twenty-six thatch roofs and one slate, I counted. I saw part of a wagon. Someone's there" .

" 一个渔村，不，就在北边的湖岸。一共二十六间茅屋和一间石板屋，我数过了。我还看到半露的马车。那地方有人。"

She knew no such troublesome thoughts ever disturbed the brains under the four flaming thatches in the carriage and, as always when she felt herself different from her neighbors, an irritated confusion fell upon her.

她知道，马车里那四个火红头发的姑娘是不会为这样胡乱的想法而伤脑筋的，于是像往常一样她又深感自己跟人家不同，又被一起懊恼而惶惑的心情所笼罩了。

The jessamine clambers in flowers o'er the thatch, And the swallow chirps sweet from her nest in the wall; All trembling with transport, he raises the latch, And the voices of loved ones reply to his call.

茉莉花树，越过颓圮屋顶，燕子唧啾，筑巢不再零，惊喜若狂中，他推开门闩，游子归来，父母的熟悉身影。

All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.

突然，我们身后空地旁的茅屋里，传出了录音机的声音，一首乐曲在村子空地之上缭绕，减弱了我们在河畔谈话的声音，然后又传至河面，随流去。

A brewer had built it early in the 'period' craze, a decade before, and there was a story that he'd agreed to pay five years' taxes on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would have their roofs thatched with straw.

这座房子是十年前一位酿酒商在那个" 仿古热" 初期建造的，并且还有一个传闻，说他曾答应为所有邻近的小型别墅付五年的税款，只要各位房主肯在屋顶铺上茅草。

But that is why it's so interesting, because this is just one of tens of thousands designed to cover roofs that would once have been thatched, but in prosperous Silla Korea, were tiled with objects like this.

它曾被安放的位置与西方的滴水兽类似，高踞于庙宇或豪宅的屋顶。瓦片的面部细节极为粗糖，显然只是将湿土按压进一个简单的模具制成的。人们的屋顶曾经只用茅草覆，而今在繁华的新罗，人们制造出成千上万件类似的瓦片，覆在屋顶之上。

Narbert led them along a pebbled path and through a grove of apple trees to a whitewashed stable with a peaked thatch roof. " You may leave your animals here. Brother Gillam will see that they are fed and watered" .

纳特领他们沿鹅卵石小径行走，穿过一片苹果树林，来到一间粉刷过的马厩跟前，马厩有尖尖的茅草屋顶。" 你们将牲畜留在此处。吉拉曼兄弟负责给它们喂食饮水。"