Other woods expand and contract at different rates than oak, so repairs to oak ships done with those woods split or leak.
与橡木相比，其他木材的膨胀和收缩速度不同，所以用这些木材做的橡木船的修理会出现裂缝或漏水。
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Each humble drawer, too, was beautiful, with sides and front in deliberately contrasting woods linked by dovetails: light oak into rosewood, mahogany into ash.
In medieval Europe an exploding population and hard-working monks put paid to perhaps half its temperate oak and beech woods-mostly, as is usually the case, to clear space for crops.