Brittle with excessive frost, many colossal tough-grained maples, snapped in twain like pipestems, cumbered the unfeeling earth.

• 许多粗大的木质坚韧的枫树，由于重霜冻得发脆，象烟管那样突然啪嗒一声断成两段，插在毫无感觉的地上。