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Welcome to the Four Winds Historical Farm, where traditions of the past are preserved for visitors like you.
欢迎来到Four Winds历史农场，在这里过去的传统为你们这样的游客保留了下来。
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Today, our master thatchers will begin giving this barn behind me a sturdy thatched roof, able to withstand heavy winds and last up to a hundred years.
今天，我们的茅屋匠大师将开始给予我身后的谷仓一个结实的茅草屋顶，能够抵挡大风并且维持上百年。
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How do they do it? Well, in a nutshell, thatching involves covering the beams or rafters, the wooden skeleton of a roof with reeds or straw.
他们是怎么做到的呢？好，简而言之，用茅草覆盖屋顶包括用芦苇和稻草覆盖大梁和椽木，屋顶的木制骨架。
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Our thatchers here have harvested their own natural materials for the job, the bundles of water reeds you see lying over there beside the barn.
我们这儿的茅屋匠们已经为这项工作收割了他们自己的天然材料，你们看见横放在那边谷仓旁的一束束的水芦了吧。
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Thatching is certainly uncommon in the Untied States today.
用茅草盖屋顶在今天的美国确实不太常见了。
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I guess that's why so many of you have come to see this demonstration.
我猜这也是为什么你们那么多人过来看这个演示。
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But it wasn't always that way.
当并不总是这样。
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In the seventeenth century, the colonists here thatched their roofs with reeds and straw, just as they had done in England.
在十七世纪，殖民者用芦苇和稻草覆盖他们的屋顶，就像他们在英国做的那样。
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After a while, though, they began to replace the thatch with wooden shingles because wood was so plentiful.
然而，过了一阵子，他们开始使用木板瓦来代替茅草屋顶因为木材是如此充足。
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And eventually, other roofing materials like stone, slate, and clay tiles came into use.
并且最终，其他屋顶材料如石头，石板，还有陶土瓦开始被使用了。
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It's a real shame that most people today don't realize how strong and long lasting a thatched roof is.
真是很遗憾，今天大多数的人没有认识到一个茅草屋顶是多么结实和持久耐用。
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In Ireland, where thatching is still practiced, the roofs can survive winds of up to one hundred ten miles per hour.
在爱尔兰，那里茅草屋顶依然被使用着，这种屋顶更够幸存于高达每小时一百一十英里的风速。
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That's because straw and reeds are so flexible.
那是因为稻草和芦苇是这么的柔韧。
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They bend but don't break in the wind like other materials can.
他们在风中弯曲却不会像其他材料那样能断裂。
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Another advantage is that the roofs keep the house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
另一个优势是这种屋顶保持了房子在夏天凉爽，并且在冬天温暖（冬暖夏凉）。
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And then, of course, there's the roofs' longevity—the average is sixty years, but they can last up to a hundred.
而且，当然了，还有屋顶的长寿命--平均是六十年，但他们能维持到一百年。
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With all these reasons to start thatching roofs again, wouldn't it be wonderful to see this disappearing craft return to popularity?
带着所有这些理由去重新开始用茅草盖屋顶，难道看见这种正在消失中的工艺回归流行不是很美妙吗？