Then his voice changed as if every pine-tree was a Rural Dean.
然后他的声音变了， 好像每一棵松树都是一位乡村院长。
英语百科
Rural Dean
In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church, a rural dean is a member of clergy who presides over a "rural deanery" (often referred to as a deanery). In some Church of England dioceses rural deans have been formally renamed as area deans.