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。

" 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。

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，我们身后空地旁茅屋里，传出录音机声音，一首乐曲在村子空地之上缭绕，减弱我们在河畔谈话声音，然后又传至河面，随流飘去。

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姑娘是不会为这样胡法而伤脑筋，于是像往常一样她又深感自跟人家不同，又被一起懊恼而惶惑心情所。

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，筑巢不再飘零，惊喜若狂中，他推开门闩，游子归来，父母熟悉身影。

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。

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。

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

它覆盖着倾斜岩石， 叶子像屋顶瓦片一样重叠。

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

当你在 Thatch 时，这是舒适衣服。

At the time all other city buildings were timber framed with  thatch roofs.

当时，城市中所有其他建筑都是木结构，配以茅草屋顶。

He thatches them both with a species of grass that grows taller than a man.

他用一种比人还高草将两间小屋都盖上茅草。

Again, rough up the surface, get the old thatch and all the brown grass out.

再次翻松表面，将旧茅草和所有枯黄草都清理掉。

They are made of sturdy wooden beams with roofs covered in thick layers of thatch.

这些房屋由坚固木梁搭建，屋顶覆盖着厚厚茅草。

They're aristocratic, like, he knows how to cure influenza and thatch a roof.

他们是贵族，懂行得很，知道怎么治流感，还会修茅草屋顶。

But of  course they grow all over the world and I'm told the trees are useful not just for the  fruit but also for making baskets and thatch.

但是当然，这些树遍布世界各地，我听说这些树不仅果实有用，还可以用来编篮子和做茅草屋顶。

With all these reasons to start thatching roofs again, --- wouldn't it be wonderful to see this disappearing craft return to popularity?

有所有这些再次开始使用茅草屋顶理由，---看到这种消失工艺重新流行起来不是很好吗？

They do have schools, but the schools sometimes are under sticks or they have, they're made of sticks and a thatch roof.

他们确实有学校，但这些学校有时只是用木棍搭建，或者由木棍和茅草屋顶构成。

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" .

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

He went on thatching in a kind of dream. She had spoken more warmly to him tonight than she had ever done when she was unmarried and free to speak as warmly as she liked.

她消失在黑暗中。盖伯瑞尔像在梦幻中一样继续盖稻草。比起她未婚时和自由自在地热情交谈时，今晚她态度可热情多。

" 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，不大，就在北边湖岸。一共二十六间茅屋和一间石板屋，我数过。我还看到半露马车。那地方有人。"