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In making leather from raw hides, the tannin used is obtained from the wood and bark of hemlock and oak.
在通過生皮革制作皮革的過程中，使用的鞣酸是從木頭，鐵杉和橡樹樹皮中獲得的，
It is this tannin which makes leather durable and soft.
鞣酸讓皮革更加柔軟，更耐用。
During the summer the bark is peeled from the trees and taken to factories where the tannin is taken out.
在夏天，我們會從樹上削樹皮，之后進入工廠提取鞣酸。
At one time the tanbark industry was so important that in the eastern United States hemlock trees were cut and stripped for the bark alone,
一度，樹木產業非常重要，在美國東部，鐵杉只用于采集樹皮，
the wood being left to rot. Now the scarcity of hemlock trees and the use of other tannin materials have made the industry much less important.
剩下的木頭只能腐爛，如今鐵杉十分稀有，用其它材料制成的鞣酸讓產業的重要性降低。
A great deal of wood is used for the manufacture of barrels, casks, tubs, and kegs. For these purposes, red oak, white oak, cypress,
大量木材被用來制作木桶，酒桶，木盆和小桶，為了制作這些物品，紅橡樹，白橡樹，柏樹，
and gum are most frequently used. Excelsior is still another valuable forest product; it is used for shipping fragile material and even for making mattresses and rugs.
以及樹脂都是經常使用的東西，細刨花是另外一個珍貴的森林產品，它用來運輸易碎的材料，甚至制作床墊和墊子。
Basswood makes the best excelsior, but cotton wood, poplar, and white pine are also used. The uses of wood are far from ended: paper pulp, spools,
椴樹是制作細刨花的最好材料，但白楊，楊樹以及北美喬松也經常拿來使用，樹木的用途遠不止如此，紙漿，線軸，
box boards, willow ware, toys, implements, tool handles, shuttles, a list would take up many pages. Indeed, over four thousand separate uses for wood have been listed.
箱板，藤制品，玩具，工具，刀柄，梭子，產品清單可以有很多頁，我們列舉了超四千種樹木用途。
One other product of the forest is important enough to mention here, the Christmas tree. For the Christmas tree is the great winter crop of the forest,
另一個值得一提的重要森林產品是圣誕樹，圣誕樹是冬天森林的最好作物，
and it is one of the forest's oldest gifts. Its history extends so far back that its origin is hard to trace. Some say the custom arose with the Egyptians,
也是森林最古老的禮物之一，它的歷史很久遠，已很難追溯源頭，有些人說這一傳統來自埃及人，
who each year in December decorated their doors with branches of the date palm. Or, it may be connected with the great tree of Norse mythology,
每年的12月份，他們會用海棗樹樹枝裝飾房門，或者與挪威神話中大樹有關，
the Tree of Time within whose roots and branches Heaven and Earth are bound.
時光之樹的樹根和樹枝與天地纏繞。
