Perhaps naively, I had expected to find that many trees had been killed. They hadn't. They had blackened bark, but were otherwise looking rather well.

也许处于幼稚，我本料想会看到许多烧死的树木。但它们并没有被大火烧死，只有被烧黑的树皮，要不是这场大火，它们本来长势良好。