"a row of burned houses"
"a charred bit of burnt wood"
"a burned-over site in the forest"
"barricaded the street with burnt-out cars"
这里没有镇子，除了铁轨和被烧焦的土地，什么都没有。
Nick looked at the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river.尼克眺望着烧得光秃秃的山脉，希望能找到零星地散布在山上的房子。什么都没有剩下。他走下铁路，向河上的木桥走去。
Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.自2010年以来，干旱和昆虫已经导致加州超过1亿棵树死亡，其中大部分发生在2016年，野火已经烧毁了数十万英亩的土地。
