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

我们住在一间可爱茅草小屋里...你知道...屋顶是茅草做。

Built of sod, cut from the plains.

泥屋上割下茅草建造而成。

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.

它曾被安放位置与西方滴水兽类似，高踞于庙宇或豪宅屋顶。瓦片面部细节极为粗糖，显然只是将湿土按压进一个简单模具制成。人们屋顶曾经只用茅草覆盖，而今在繁华新罗，人们制造出成千上万件类似瓦片，覆盖在屋顶之上。

A long time ago, before the sugarcane farms, before the grass-thatched huts and the round compounds, the animals lived happily because there was plenty in the land and a future to look forward to.

很久以前，在甘蔗农场形成以前，在茅草屋搭成以前，人类世界形成以前，动物们生得自自在，因为他们生空间充足，并且未来充满希望。

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，并且还有一个传闻，说他曾答应为所有邻近小型别墅付五年税款，只要各位房主肯在屋顶铺上茅草。

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

周围都是一些盖有茅草屋顶小屋及田地。

Hide your thatched-roofed cottages and get ready for some burninating.

快藏好你们茅草屋顶小屋，准备迎接烈焰焚烧吧。

We can also visit Du Fu's Thatched Cottage (Du Fu Caotang), one of my favourite places there.

我们也可以参观杜甫茅草屋（杜甫草堂），是我在那里最去处。

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.

村里长者告诉我，随着湖水变化，他们被迫搬迁他们村庄--卢耶尼，小心翼翼地将他们茅草房拆除，搬到离湖水更远地方。

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小花园；花园后面是一所不对称旧茅草屋顶房子，面对着荒，可以看到山谷全景。

" 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在茅草屋下用一个大碗制糖时，说道：“每个家庭都知道如何手工制糖”。

The family lived in three huts. One was for sleeping, one for cooking, and one for storage. The huts had mud walls, dirt floors, and grass roofs.

这个家庭住在三间小屋里。一间用来睡觉，一间用来做饭，一间用来储物。小屋是泥墙土地，屋顶铺着茅草。

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，屋顶铺是茅草，而且里面没有电气设施，因此演出只能在夏季白天进行。这和诗人莎翁在世时情况一样。

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，尽管她尽其最后努力，用茅草屋顶上草来喂牛，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.

铺盖瓦片房屋成行成列，不再有一个茅草屋顶。风调雨顺，五谷丰登。

So some claimed to live in thatched-roof structures next to their metal-roofed homes so they could receive donations.

所以一些人声称他们住在金属屋顶房屋旁边茅草屋顶结构中，所以他们也可以接受捐赠。

In a moment the natives came tumbling out of their huts, greatly frightened. The old tembo disappeared.

不一会，这些当地男孩跌跌撞撞地出了茅草屋，显得非常害怕，这只老象消失了。

The house was encrusted with heavy thatchings, which dropped between the upper windows; the front, upon which the moonbeams directly played, had originally been white; but a huge pyracanth now darkened the greater portion.

屋顶上铺了厚厚茅草，垂挂在高处两扇窗户中间；月光直射在房子正面墙上，那墙本来是白色，但有很大一部分让一棵大红果常青棘给遮暗了。

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，将捐款目标锁定在屋顶有大量茅草村庄。

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

是一片拥有连绵起伏丘陵、茅草覆盖村庄和田园风光温和土地。