In tough, unwedgeable, knotty strength, it is the oak of oaks, a magnificent tree.

在坚韧、不可楔入、多节的力量中， 它是橡树中的橡树， 一棵壮丽的树。

The trunk was all knots and buttresses, gray like granite, and about as angular and irregular as the boulders on which it was growing—a type of steadfast, unwedgeable strength.

树干全是树节和支柱， 像花岗岩一样灰色， 棱角分明，不规则，就像它生长在上面的巨石——一种坚定不移的力量。

The mountain live oak, common here and a thousand feet or so higher, is like the live oak of Florida, not only in general appearance, foliage, bark, and wide-branching habit, but in its tough, knotty, unwedgeable wood.

高山橡树在这里很常见，高出 1000 英尺左右，就像佛罗里达州的橡树，不仅在一般外观、叶子、树皮和宽阔的分枝习惯上，而且在坚韧、多节、不可楔入的木材上。