She took them to a beautiful tree that had many, many cones on it.

她把他们带到了一棵漂亮的树前，树上有很多很多的球果。

Beyond this they found a wide gap in the castle wall and stepped through it into a wood of darker and bigger trees where they found dead branches and rotten wood and sticks and dry leaves and fir-cones in plenty.

在更远处，他们看见城堡围墙上有一个大豁口。穿过豁口，来到一个小树林，这儿的树颜色更深，也更高大。在这里他们找到了大量的干枝、朽木、枯叶和冷杉树的球果。

" Much obliged. I'll do anything if you'll let me stop a bit, for it's as dull as the Desert of Sahara down there. Shall I sew, read, cone, draw, or do all at once? Bring on your bears. I'm ready."

“十分感谢，我什么都愿意干，只要你允许我在这里逗留一下，因为那边沉闷得像撒哈拉大沙漠一样。要我针线活、读书、拾球果、画图呢，时什么都？悉听尊命，我已好准备。”

So just start with this: a pine is a non-deciduous irregularly-canopied coniferous tree with 2-colored-scales on its downward-hanging cones and needles in bunches of 2, 3 or 5.

松树不落叶，有着不规则树冠的针叶树，向下生长的球果上有两种颜色的鳞片，针束里有 2，3 或 5 根针叶。

And it doesn't just eat the leaves, it also eats the buds, the flowers, and the cones on the tree here.

而且它不只吃树叶，它吃嫩芽、花朵和树上的球果。

And milder fires actually help these trees reproduce because the heat causes their cones to release new seeds.

并且较温和的火实际上有助于这些树的繁殖，因为高温会让它们的球果释放出新的种子。

When the temperature warms up, they know it's time to sprout leaves and bloom, or develop seed cones.

当温度升高时，它们知道时候发芽开花了，或者长出球果了。

So to set things straight, scientifically: pines and the trees they get confused with differ in the shape and size of their needles and cones, as well as their overall shape.

所以从科学的角度出发，松树和它的近亲不的地方在于针叶和球果的形状，大小，以及整体的形状。

" I've made such quantities it would be hard to choose which I'd have, " said Laurie, lying flat and throwing cones at the squirrel who had betrayed him.

“我设想了大量的空中楼阁，简直难于择究竟要哪一个。”劳里说时平躺在地上，把球果向先前暴露他行踪的松鼠丢去。

Its cones hang down, not up, have scales that open rather than fall off, and have little extra scales that look like mouse butts.

它的球果向下生长的，而非向上，鳞片打开的，而不直接掉落，额外长了些看起来像老鼠屁股一样的鳞片。

Beth was sorting the cones that lay thick under the hemlock near by, for she made pretty things with them.

贝思正在附近铁杉树下密密的球果中挑，因为她用球果成漂亮的东西。

Its distinguishing features are cones that stand upright and whose scales come off with the seeds attached, rather than opening to let the seeds fall out.

它的显著特征在于，球果向上生长的，并且种子附着在球果脱落的鳞片上，而不打开鳞片让种子掉下来。

You can tell spruces from pines by their squarish individual needles held in a bottle brush shape and their cones' scales that take only one year to grow.

你可以根据这些特点区分松树和云杉，云杉有着独立的方形针叶，枝条呈瓶刷状，球果的鳞一年即可成熟。

And I like the part where the golden spruce cones turn into silver spruce cones.

而且我喜欢那个金色冷杉球果变成银色冷杉球果的部分。

Then new trees grew from the cones to take their place.

然后，新的树木从球果中长出， 取而代之。

The red seed cones are as fine as candles.

红色的种子球果像蜡烛一样细。

Beth was sorting the cones that lay thick under the hemlock near by, for she made pretty things with them. Amy was sketching a group of ferns, and Jo was knitting as she read aloud.

贝丝正在整理附近铁杉下厚厚的球果，因为她用它们了漂亮的东西。艾米正在画一组蕨类植物，乔一边编织一边大声朗读。

From a single Sugar Pine cone he gets from two to four hundred seeds about half the size of a hazel-nut, so that in a few minutes he can procure enough to last a week.

从一个糖松球果中，他可以得到两到四百颗种子，大约一个榛子的一半大小，因此在几分钟内他就能获得足够维持一周的种子。

The cones are grayish-green when ripe, cylindrical, from three to four inches long, and one and a half to two inches wide, and stand upright on the upper horizontal branches.

球果熟时呈灰绿色， 圆柱形，长三四寸，宽一寸半至二寸， 直立在上部横枝上。

Many of them are bearing cones, and the noisy Clarke crow is eating the seeds, using his long bill like a woodpecker in digging them out of the cones.

他们中的许多人都结着球果，吵闹的克拉克乌鸦正在吃种子，用他像啄木鸟一样的长嘴把种子从球果中挖出来。