Low water bares gray strips of sandbar on which the natives build tiny palm-thatch shelters for overnight fishing trips.

水浅的地方露出灰茫茫的狭长沙洲，土著人在沙洲上过夜的渔夫搭建了小小的棕榈茅舍。

Dorothy at once ran back to the cottage and found the oil-can, and then she returned and asked anxiously, " Where are your joints? "

多萝茜立刻跑进茅舍，找到了油罐，回来急切地问：“告诉我你的关节是哪些地方？”

When the savage provides himself with a hut or a wigwam for shelter, or that he may store up his provisions, he does no more than is done by the rabbit, the beaver, the bee, and birds of every species.

当原始人出于自，搭建茅舍或者棚屋以遮风避雨，甚至存贮食物，其实，人类行绝非具有超越野兔、海狸、蜜蜂或任何鸟类的本能意义。

Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire.

我很快便看到了一个小茅舍，里面有个老人正在火上做早饭。

" We are on the way to the Emerald City to see the Great Oz., " she answered, " and we stopped at your cottage to pass the night."

“我们是去翡翠城的，拜访那伟大的奥芝，”她回答说，“我们昨天在你的茅舍里，住了一夜。”

They left the cottage and walked through the trees until they found a little spring of clear water, where Dorothy drank and bathed and ate her breakfast.

他们从茅舍里走出来，直到他们发现了一小股清清的泉水，多萝茜便（高兴地）喝着，洗着，吃着她的面包。

There was only one danger--that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it.

现在只有一个危险——那就是我的关节会发锈；因而在我的茅舍里，藏着一个油罐，当我需要时，我会给自己加油。

And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color.

如果它留下来， 最贫穷的茅舍就会散发出温暖、生机和色彩。

An old hut gave shelter from the storm.

【shelter】一间旧茅舍成了躲避暴风雨的地方。

To my other side stood rows of snow-burdened cypress trees peppered among flat-topped clay houses--no more than mud shacks in most cases--separated by narrow alleys.

小巷的另外一边是成排的柏树，枝头堆满积雪，散落在一些窄巷交错的平顶黏土房屋之间--那些房子比土屋茅舍好不了多少。

Recently two bandit chiefs have erected a stronghold there, and have collected about seven hundred men, and they rob the cottages near here.

近来，有两个土匪头子在那里扎寨，纠集了七百人左右，抢劫附近的茅舍。