We live in a lovely thatched cottage...you know...with a straw roof.

我们住一间可爱的茅草里...你知道的...顶是茅草做的。

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。人们的顶曾经只用茅草覆盖，而今繁华的新罗，人们制造出成千上万件类似的瓦片，覆盖顶之上。

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型别墅付五年的税款，只要各位房主顶铺上茅草。

It was surrounded by fields and little huts with thatched roofs.

周围都是一些盖有茅草顶的田地。

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

" 我们还是去弄苔原草苫顶吧。" 茅德说。

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里，传出了录音机的声音，一首乐曲村子空地之上缭绕，减弱了我们河畔谈话的声音，然后又传至河面，随流飘去。

Hogsmeade looked like a Christmas card; the little thatched cottages and shops were all covered in a layer of crisp snow; there were holly wreaths on the doors and strings of enchanted candles hanging in the trees.

茅和店铺都盖上了一层松脆的雪，各家各户的门上都有冬青扎成的花环，施过魔法的蜡烛成串地挂树上。

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，越过颓圮顶，燕子唧啾，筑巢不再飘零，惊喜若狂中，他推开门闩，游子归来，父母的熟悉身影。

The village elders told me how, with the movement of the water, they had been forced to move their village, Luyeni, carefully uprooting their thatch houses and relocating them further from the lapping water.

村里的长者告诉我，随着湖水的变化，他们被迫搬迁他们的村庄--卢耶尼，心翼翼地将他们的茅草房拆除，搬到离湖水更远的地方。

Behind the white palings was a little garden; behind the garden an old, irregular, thatched house, facing the heath, and commanding a full view of the valley.

白色栅栏后面有一个花园；花园后面是一所不对称的旧茅草顶房子，面对着荒原，可以看到山谷的全景。

" Every family knew how to make sugar by hand, " Wu said, as she recalled how locals made sugar sitting under a thatched shack with a big bowl.

吴女士回忆本地人如何坐茅草下用一个大碗制糖时，说道：“每个家庭都知道如何手工制糖”。

It is built of wood with a thatched roof and has no electricity, so performances can only take place in summer daylight, as in the Bard's day.

整个建筑是木架结构，顶铺的是茅草，而且里面没有电气设施，因此演出只能夏季的白天进行。这和诗人莎翁世时的情况一样。

The aid group GiveDirectly used satellite images to target donations to people in villages with a high number of thatched roofs on homes.

" 直接给钱" 援助组织利用卫星图像，将捐款目标锁定顶有大量茅草的村庄。

Despite a last-ditch effort to feed her cattle with grass from her thatch roof, Addis Ahmed Omar says they all perished.

Addis Ahmed Omar说，尽管她尽其最后的努力，用茅草顶上的草来喂牛，但最终还是死了。

Houses with tiled roofs stood in rows in the capital, and not a thatched roof was to be seen. Gentle rain came with harmonious blessings and all the harvests were plentiful.

铺盖瓦片的房成行成列，不再有一个茅草顶。风调雨顺，五谷丰登。

It thatches the sloping rocks, frond overlapping frond like roof shingles.

它覆盖着倾斜的岩石， 叶子像顶瓦片一样重叠。

They lived in houses made from carved wooden frames and thatched with leaves.

他们住由木雕框架和树叶盖成的房子里。

IS A GENTLE LAND OF ROLLING HILLS, THATCHED VILLAGES, AND BUCOLIC FARMS.

是一片拥有连绵起伏的丘陵、茅草覆盖的村庄和田园风光的温和土地。

It's cozy clothes when you're at Thatch.

当你 Thatch 时，这是舒适的衣服。