" Hit'll take a batch o' termites a good twenty years to eat out the bottom of a house. If it's fat pine, now" .

“一群白蚁要吃掉房子的底部需要二十年的时间。如果是肥松， 现在” 。

The smudge pots lay a thick smoke, but good fat pine properly handled lays enough of a protective blanket of smoke over the trees against the settling cold.

污迹罐冒出浓烟，但处理得当的好肥松在树上铺下了足够的保护层，以抵御沉降的寒冷。

If we have 28 degrees just before daylight and it has not previously dropped to this mark, we are inclined to risk it and to disband, saving the precious fat pine for a worse night.

如果我们在黎明前有 28 度， 并且以前没有下降到这个标记， 我们倾向于冒险并解散， 为更糟糕的夜晚挽救珍贵的肥松。

Through the afternoon they hauled fat pine from the high stack kept for the purpose, and placed it in the grove, one fire to be laid in the center of each square of four trees.

整个下午，他们都从为此目的而保留的高高的松树堆中拖出肥大的松树，并将其放置在树林中，在每四棵树的正方形中央生一团火。

For all our battles, winter at the Creek is the cozy time, when fat pine fires crackle on all the hearths. I take my dog for a walk up the road at sunset and the wind blows in our faces.

对于我们所有的战斗，小溪的冬天是舒适的时光，肥厚的松树在所有壁炉上噼啪作响。日落时分，我带着我的狗在路上散步，风吹在我们的脸上。