Bright – but not bright enough not to get herself up the duff, as Dad occasionally muttered.

聪明——但还不够聪明， 不会让自己陷入困境，就像爸爸偶尔咕哝的那样。

I mean, when I came home and told her I was up the duff I thought she was never going to speak to me again.

的意思是，当回到家告诉她一事无成时， 以为她再也不会和说话了。

'I need a bedroom, not a cupboard, and you've had the best room the whole time, just because you were dumb enough to get yourself up the duff.

“需要一间卧室， 而不是橱柜，而你一直拥有最好的房间， 只是因为你愚蠢到让自己陷入困境。

This is a little cleared area down here and all the duff has churned up probably from turkey or deer who are looking around for acorns and nuts to eat for the, you know, buff up for the winter.

这里有一小块空地，这些是火鸡或者鹿的食物，它们四处寻找橡子和坚果来吃，你知道，为冬天做准备。

That should tell us something about our need to get off our duff.

这告诉们需要奋力摆脱困境。

So if the fire can get deeply embedded into those organic peaty kind of duff layers, they can just hide out.”

因此，如果野火能深深埋入这种有机泥煤状的半腐层中，它就能隐藏起来。”

Now, any of those stats should convince each of us to get off our duff more, but if you're anything like me, it won't.

现在，那些统计数据应该足以成功说服你要多起身走动，但是如果你们像这么懒，绝对办不到了。

Put bluntly, the colleges might have had duff portfolios (or especially bad tenants). The evidence on whether college endowments are good investors is mixed.

说白了，这些大的投资组合可能都很差劲(尤其是糟糕的租户)。关于大捐赠基金是否是优秀投资者的证据有好有坏。

And that's the key. So if the fire can get deeply embedded into those organic, peaty, kind of duff layers, they can just hide out.

这就是关键。所以如果大火能深入到这些有机的，含有泥炭的，没啥用的土层中，就能隐藏这些大火。

This is our newest experimental facility and the purpose of this facility is to understand pretty much how large woody fuels and deep duff layers, deep organic layers burn.

这是们最新的实验设施，这个设施的目的是了解大量的木质燃料和深层尘土层，深层有机层是如何燃烧的。