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

我们住在一间可爱的茅草小屋里...你知道的...屋顶是茅草做的。

Built of sod, cut from the plains.

泥屋由平原上割下的茅草建造而成。

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.

它曾被安放的西方的滴水兽类似，高踞于庙宇或豪宅的屋顶。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。人们的屋顶曾经只用茅草覆盖，而今在繁华的新罗，人们制造出成千上万件类似的瓦片，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，动物们生得自由自在，因为他们的生空间充足，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酿酒商在那个" 仿古热" 期建造的，并且还有一个传闻，说他曾答应为所有邻近的小型别墅付五年的税款，只要各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的小屋及田地。

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

快藏好你们茅草屋顶的小屋，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的茅草屋（杜甫草堂），是我在那里最喜欢的去处。

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，小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小花园；花园后面是一所不对称的旧茅草屋顶房子，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，屋顶铺的是茅草，而且里面没有电气设施，因此演出只能在夏季的白天进行。这和诗人莎翁在世时的情况一样。

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，尽管她尽其最后的努力，用茅草屋顶上的草来喂牛，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的茅草屋顶结构中，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.

屋顶上铺了厚厚的茅草，垂挂在高处两扇窗户中间；月光直射在房子正面墙上，那墙本来是白色的，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的村庄。

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。