I TRUDGED up the snowy hill, head bent against the freezing wind with my overnight kit under my arm, trying to make my way through the snow in the arctic dark.

我胳臂下夹着寝具在白雪覆盖的山路上跋涉，一边低头躲避着刺骨的寒风，一边在北极的黑夜里试图在雪地里找到前行的道路。

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But with every roll, it picks up more and more snow until it becomes a big snowball rolling very fast down the hill.

但是随着每一次滚动，它会吸收越来越多的雪，直到变成一个大雪球飞快地滚下山。

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On a hill with a stretch of green vegetables, frozen snow will want all of them, to head out of rape radish like deep sea shark fins exposed flocks, which is enough to hide the green.

山坡上种着一畦畦青菜，雪想将它们全部雪藏，萝卜油菜奋力探出的脑袋却如深海里成群的白鲨露出的鳍，这哪是能藏得住的绿呢。

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Although hill farmers are used to dealing with snow, this year it has come much later in the season when sheep are at their most vulnerable because they are in the late stages of pregnancy or at the start of lambing.

BBC: Cold weather: Winners and losers from the long winter