But as winter wore away—the short, snowless winter marked by damp nights and cool, rainy days—he marvelled at how quickly the system had grasped him.

但随着冬天的过去——短暂无雪的冬天以潮湿的夜晚和凉爽的雨天为标志——他惊讶于系统如此迅速地掌握了他。

Yet oddly, the conditions and the temperature necessary to make snow, are much milder than those prevailing when we have our occasional disastrous and quite snowless freezes.

然而奇怪的是， 造雪所需的条件和温度比我们偶尔遇到灾难性的、完全无雪的冰冻时普遍存在的条件和温度要温和得多。