At this season I seldom had a visitor. When the snow lay deepest no wanderer ventured near my house for a week or fortnight at a time, but there I lived as snug as a meadow mouse, or as cattle and poultry which are said to have survived for a long time buried in drifts, even without food; or like that early settler's family in the town of Sutton, in this state, whose cottage was completely covered by the great snow of 1717 when he was absent, and an Indian found it only by the hole which the chimney's breath made in the drift, and so relieved the family. But no friendly Indian concerned himself about me; nor needed he, for the master of the house was at home. The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of! When the farmers could not get to the woods and swamps with their teams, and were obliged to cut down the shade trees before their houses, and, when the crust was harder, cut off the trees in the swamps, ten feet from the ground, as it appeared the next spring.
　　（徐迟译）在这种季节里，我那儿难得有客人来。当积雪最深的时候，往往一连一星期，甚至半个月都没有一个人走近我的屋子，可是我生活得很舒服，像草原上的一只老鼠或者牛，或者鸡，据说它们即使长时期地埋葬在积雪中，没有食物吃，也能活下去哩；或者，我像本州的萨顿城中，那最早的一家移民，据说在一七一七年的大雪中，他自己不在家，可是大雪全部盖没了他的草屋，后来幸亏一个印第安人，认出了烟囱中喷出的热气在积雪中化出的一个窟窿，才把他的一家人救了出来。可是没有友好的印第安友人来关心我了，他也不必，因为屋子的主人现在在家里。大雪！听来这是多么的愉快啊！农夫们不能带了他们的驴马到森林或沼泽中来，他们不能不把门口那些遮蔽日光的树木砍伐下来了，而当积雪坚硬了，他们来到沼泽地区砍了一些树，到第二年春天去看看，他们是在离地面十英尺高的地方砍下了那些树的。

1. no wanderer ventured near my house for a week or fortnight at a time，译“一连一周或两周都没有人走近我的房子”也可以，但wanderer的“漫步”和venture的“冒险”没有体现出来。
2. The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of! When the farmers could not get to the woods and swamps with their teams, and were obliged to cut down the shade trees before their houses, and, when the crust was harder, cut off the trees in the swamps, ten feet from the ground, as it appeared the next spring.两个感叹句后是一个when从句，没有主句。　When译作“那时”可以。