Near gloucester in western England, some 127,000 saplings(树苗，幼树) are approaching the end of their first summer in their permanent home. Forestry England, a government agency, planted the trees last winter on an 88-hectare (217-acre) site that was recently a farm. Most of the trees are behind wire fences, which extend below ground to thwart(阻止，挫败) wild boar. A deer bounds(跳跃，蹦跳) along, looking for a way in(寻找进入的方法).
在英格兰西部的格洛斯特附近，约12.7万棵树苗即将在它们的永久家园里度过第一个夏天的尾声。政府机构英格兰林业局去年冬天在一片88公顷（217英亩）的土地上种下了这些树，那里不久前还是一片农田。大多数树都在铁丝网后面，铁丝网延伸到地下以阻止野猪进入。一只鹿蹦跳着跑过，寻找进入的路。
The infant(幼小的，初期的) woodland, known as Hoarthorns, is remarkable for a couple of reasons. It is the first substantial(大量的，可观的) addition to the Forest of Dean, one of England’s oldest large woods, for two centuries. And the saplings, which are planted in neat lines, are enormously varied. Almost 40 species are growing on the site, most of them broadleaf(阔叶的) trees such as oak and alder(桤木).
这片被称为霍索恩斯的幼林，因几个原因而引人注目。它是迪恩森林——英格兰最古老的大片林地之一——两个世纪以来首次大规模扩展。而且，这些树苗成排种植，种类极其多样。该地生长着近40个树种，其中大部分是橡树和桤木等阔叶树。
When the Forestry Commission (a government department of which Forestry England is part) was created after the first world war, it planted a very different sort of woodland. Kevin Stannard, a regional director of Forestry England, gestures towards a monotonous(单调的，乏味的) block of mature conifers(针叶树) on a hillside near the saplings. “If this was 1919,” he says, “what you would have seen here is what you see over there.”(“如果这是1919年，”他说，“你在这里看到的就会是那边那样的景象。”)
当林业委员会（英格兰林业局所属的政府部门）在第一次世界大战后成立时，它种植的林地类型截然不同。英格兰林业局的区域主管凯文·斯坦纳德指着树苗附近山坡上一片单调的成熟针叶林说：“如果这是1919年，你在这里看到的就会是那边那样的景象。”
Seeing the wood for the trees
见木见林
The most kindest cut of all
最仁慈的一刀