In the north the ground becomes very cold as the winter snow and ice covers the ground.

在北方地面变得很冷，因为冬天的冰雪覆盖着地面。

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In any case, it tops sleeping in a hole in the cold ground, a moldy rabbit skin for your pillow, and the grunts and sighs of a dozen changelings anxious in their dreams.

不管怎么说，这好过睡在洞里冷冰冰的地上，拿发霉的兔皮当枕头，还有十来个换生灵在不安的睡梦中咕哝和叹气。

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To wags during the cold war, ground zero was a favoured spot: better to be incinerated in the first mushroom cloud, they joshed, than to wake up to a world of radioactive rubble.

对于冷战期间诙谐幽默的人来说更愿意选择地面零点：他们冷嘲到，在第一个蘑菇云出现时就被烧死总比过后意识到全世界到处都有放射性物质要好。

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We slept on the hard ground, ate canned beans from cold metal plates and spent our days in the difficult search for gold.

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Unless you live in California, Hawaii or Florida or some fancy place like that, the ground is probably going to be squishy with cold mud, and someone in your family is going to fall down face-first and ruin his or her Thanksgiving outfit.

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During hundreds of camping trips and meetings and service projects and weird and wonderful events such as the Klondike Derby (a cold-weather competition in which scouts drag makeshift sleds over frozen ground for hours), I learned how to adapt to changing circumstances on the fly while keeping the main goals in sight.

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