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Because flammable material couldn’t build up on the landscape, blazes tended to move slowly and peter out when they reached the footprints of previous burns.

由于易燃物无法在地面上大量堆积，火势往往蔓延缓慢，并在到达以往过火区域时逐渐熄灭。

At Yosemite National Park, Martin oversaw the use of what is known as prescribed burns to make the landscape more resilient.

在约塞米蒂国家公园，马丁主持实施了所谓的计划烧除，以增强当地景观的恢复能力。

Research shows that these prescribed burns make subsequent wildfires less severe, even if later fires happen under the most dangerous weather conditions.

研究表明，这些计划烧除会降低后续野火的严重程度，即使之后的火灾发生在最危险的天气条件下也是如此。

the causes of previous burns.

以往火灾的起因。

it is necessary to introduce prescribed burns.

有必要引入计划烧除。

As Roma Agrawal explains in her new delightful book Nuts and Bolts, early 17th-century Virginians would sometimes burn down their homes if they were planning to relocate.

正如罗玛·阿格拉沃尔在她妙趣横生的新书《螺母与螺栓》中所解释的，17世纪早期的弗吉尼亚人在打算搬家时，有时会把自己的房子烧掉。

The idea that one might burn down an entire house just to reclaim the nails underlines how scarce, costly and valuable the simple-seeming technology was.

人们会为了回收钉子而烧掉整座房子，这一做法凸显了这项看似简单的技术在当时是多么稀缺、昂贵和宝贵。

Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

自2010年以来，干旱和虫害已经导致加州超过1亿棵树木死亡，其中大部分仅在2016年就已死亡，而野火已烧毁了数十万英亩土地。

The strategy also aims to ensure that carbon in woody material removed from the forests is locked away in the form of solid lumber or burned as biofuel in vehicles that would otherwise run on fossil fuels.

该策略还旨在确保从森林中清除的木质材料中的碳以实木的形式被封存起来，或作为生物燃料在原本使用化石燃料的车辆中燃烧。

Then his marriage failed, his career burned out and his drinking became serious.

后来他婚姻破裂，事业受挫，酗酒也变得严重起来。