A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
木材
Timber
Knotty timber requires sharp wedges.
多节木材需要锋利的楔子。
If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.
如果你设法阻止木材工业砍伐这片森林，他们就会砍伐那片森林。如果你停止在这里开采石油，他们就会到那里去开采。
We had these heavy chunks of concrete and bricks falling on us. Timbers and what-have-you, and my wife was, unfortunately, struck with flying debris.
这些沉重的水泥块和砖块砸在我们身上。不幸的是，木头和你，还有我的妻子，都被飞溅的碎片击中了。
There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
这里有一种基本的张力。有人说，我想把这片森林砍伐掉，把它砍成锯材，因为这对我来说是一件具有经济效益的事情。