Pine straw can be used instead of wood pieces or bark as a ground cover.
松木秸秆可以代替木片或树皮作为地被物。
VOA慢速英语_美国
Farmers can gather the pine straw by hand or with use of a machine.
农民可以用手或机器收集松木秸秆。
飘(原版)
The flowering crab trees were bursting their buds and rioting from delicate white to deepest pink and, beneath the trees where the sunshine dappled the pine straw, the wild honeysuckle made a varicolored carpet of scarlet and orange and rose.
A pine is any conifer tree in the genus Pinus,/ˈpiːnuːs/, of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The Plant List compiled by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accepts 126 species names of pines as current, together with 35 unresolved species and many more synonyms.