Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

  • -- Ernest Poole 欧内斯特普尔

我们在这里种亚麻和谷物;在这里,我们饲养它们吃的肉和羊毛来保暖;我们砍树盖房子,劈柴烧炉子。

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The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

人们最初由于所选择的位置而被迫养成了在桩子上盖房子的习惯,后来就像在荷兰一样,人们也把这种习惯作为一种品味来遵循。

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

房子意味着一种创造,一种新的东西,一个摆脱洞穴概念的庇护所。

I take everything with a grain of salt.

我对一切都半信半疑。