Dad was already mad at me for tearing up the sod, so I knew I was in for it.

本来老爸已经对我扯掉草皮的事怀恨在心，我知道自己在劫难逃。

We deserve to stand in the shade a few inches off the ground. - Yeah.

当然有权在后院离草皮几英寸的地方乘凉。- 就是。

As a young journalist, I attended the press conference, and put up my hand and asked, " If you measured the colour of gardens from green to grey, how did you account for the replacement of living lawns with plastic grass? "

作为一名年轻的记者，我参加新闻发布会，举手问道：“如果你们用从绿色到灰色的标准来衡量花园的颜色，那么你们如何解释用塑料草皮代替活草坪的现象呢？”

The smoke went up from an Etna of peat in front of him, played round the notches of the chimney-crook, struck against the salt-box, and got lost among the flitches.

他面前的草皮块升腾起像埃特纳火山一样的烟气，在壁的凹口上翻滚，在盐盒周围扑打，最后消失在悬的一块块熏肉中间。

But while Caper was pulling Willie by the coat sleeves, a piece of sod gave way under his feet, and he fell in too.

是就在凯普咬着威利外套的袖子往上拉的时候，它脚下的一块草皮松，于是凯普也滑进。

The shepherd who had given the alarm, had lain down again instantly in his plaid on the greensward, upon the summit of these precipices.

发出警报的牧羊人立刻在峭壁顶端的草皮上摊开毛呢长披。

What you're looking at is the peeled back artificial turf that was sucked up by the powerful updraft of this tornado.

你现在看到的是被龙卷风强大的上升气流吸走的剥落的人造草皮。

Hezbollah and Lebanese flags whip in the wind, and the hot summer air is rich with the scent of freshly laid and watered turf.

真主党和黎巴嫩的旗帜随风飘扬，炎热的夏季空气中弥漫着新铺设并浇灌过的草皮的清香。

At the risk of sounding like an “oily sod”, he says that he thought David Cameron's big speech on Europe was “absolutely brilliant”.

还有欧盟，但这听起来像是一块“油污的草皮”，他认为戴维-卡梅伦在欧洲的重要演讲“十分精彩”。

Initially, most of the wall was to be built in stone but the western 30-mile section was to be made from turf.

最初，大部分的墙是用石头建造的，但西部 30 英的部分是用草皮建造的。

Property owners have been paid from a few cents to a few dollars for every square meter of turf they replace.

业主每更换一平方米的草皮，他们就会得到几美分到几美元不等的报酬。

They are gone; the golden-rod Flashes from the dark green sod.

等花儿离去，鼠尾草从深绿色的草皮中星星点点冒出。

In the winter, they would live in houses made of sod and went on hunting trips.

冬天，他们会住在草皮做的房子，去打猎。

In the winter, they would live in houses made of sod and went on hunting trips, they would commute by dog sledge and build temporary houses made from ice.

在冬天，他们会住在草皮做的房子，去打猎，他们会乘坐狗拉的雪橇通勤，用冰建造临时的房子。

He crept along again, and the turves upon his back crept with him.

他又往前爬行，背上的草皮块也跟随他移动。

The new sod was sitting in the driveway on four pallets, but the job was slow-going.

新的草皮放在车道上的四个托盘上，但工作进展缓慢。

The snowball had gotten so heavy that it tore up all the sod Dad had just laid down this fall.

雪球太重，老爸秋天刚铺的草皮全都粘在上面。

Standing about the room was the little knot of men who formed the chief part of the Egdon coterie, there being present Fairway himself, Grandfer Cantle, Humphrey, Christian, and one or two turf-cutters.

在房间四处站着的是构成埃格敦荒原小圈子中坚部分的那几个人，他们是费尔韦自己，坎特尔大爷，汉弗莱，克斯廷，以及一两个挖草皮的。

" And what ghastly gallicrow might the poor fellow have been like, Master Fairway? " asked the turf-cutter.

“费尔韦先生，这怜的家伙，是个什么样的怕模样？”挖草皮的问道。

The speaker, a peat- or turf-cutter, who had newly joined the group, carried across his shoulder the singular heart-shaped spade of large dimensions used in that species of labour.

说这话的人是个挖草皮的，他刚刚加入到这一群人中间来，他肩上扛一把挖草皮用的宽铁锹，鸡心形状，很独特。