It was pleasant there, with reeds and bulrushes.

这是个不方，长满了青草和香蒲。

Typha can also be mixed with clay to make bricks for construction.

香蒲也可以与粘土混合制成建筑用砖。

Typha briquettes ignite faster and burn longer than wood.

香蒲煤球比木头燃烧得更快，燃烧时间更长。

Even the sand contained evidence -- pollen from palm and fig trees, cattails, and other plants associated with wet areas.

就连沙子也含有证据：里面有花粉，来自棕榈树和无花果树、香蒲，以及与潮湿区有关其他植物。

Typha coal, on the other hand, produces much less smoke.

另一方面，香蒲煤产生要少得多。

The bio-coal is made by burning Typha in these outdoor kilns for six hours at a time.

生物煤是通过在这些户外窑炉中一次燃烧香蒲六个小时制成。

In Senegal, Typha poses similar problems.

在塞内加尔，香蒲带来了类似问题。

Narrator: Every month, participants turn nearly 30,000 pounds of Typha into bio-coal.

旁白：每个月，参与者都会将近 30,000 磅香蒲转化为生物煤。

He was thinking of little lakes deep in the woods, of the color of bulrushes, of the sounds of night and the chorus of frogs.

他正在想着密林深处小湖，香蒲色彩，夜声响和青蛙齐唱。