The term today most often is used to describe a powerful machine designed to clear away trees and other big objects.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

They hung dead, well, not actually, actors pretending to be people that were dying from the trees.

他们把死尸吊起来，当然不是真的，而是演员假装成吊死在树上的死人。

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It refers solely to trees, and Vallombrosa is the place "where th' Etrurian shades / high overarch't imbow'r."

这个比喻指的就是树木，地点是瓦隆布罗萨,“在瓦隆布罗萨，厄特鲁利亚的光辉逐渐暗淡“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The females make huge webs, sometimes large enough to hang between trees on either side of a rural road.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Here, this image of the lines of trees and the metrical regularity of that verse that describes them.

这里，排列成行的树的画面和,诗里韵律的规律描绘的画面。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

They include what is said to be the largest growth of mangrove trees in the western half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

This is a very important concept, and we'll see a lot of algorithms essentially implement decision trees.

这是一个很重要的概念，我们可以看到很多,基于决策树的算法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Research has shown that just three rows of trees near poultry houses can reduce the release of dust and ammonia.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

I don't know if they had apple trees back then, there!

我也不知道当时当地有没有苹果树！

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Scientists recently studied the effects of mechanical thinning on two kinds of pecan trees in the southeastern United States.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

That's what you need for a phalanx, because to maintain the integrity of the hoplite line, you can't have bumps and grooves, and trees and rivers in the way; it will break things up.

而是方阵作战所必备的条件,为了维持重装步兵队列的完整性,就不能在坑坑洼洼,有树林有河流的地方布阵,这会把方阵打散

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Researchers say villages where farmers planted trees did better than others during a drought and food shortage in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

Here, you've got your basic barricade-- and these things are torn up, these are where trees came out of, as in 1968; and here's your sort of kiosk of modernity, somebody selling newspapers on these boulevards, or near these boulevards, and here's some of these people.

这个就是标准版街垒,这些东西后来都被毁掉了,这些树从中间长了出来,那是一九六八年了,这是一些现代的亭子,曾有一些人在这些街道或附近,售卖报纸,这些就是当时卖报的人

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

After liquid sap is taken from sugar maple trees, it goes to a sugarhouse where the sap is boiled.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

because they have one of the biggest Christmas trees there, and it's just beautiful and

因为那儿有一棵最大的圣诞树，它很漂亮，

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She felt her heart tremble every time he shot an unsuspecting bird as it was singing in the trees.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

He went out and saw his mum in the trees, in the clouds, or when the birds were singing.

他走出去，看到自己的母亲,在树上，在云里，在鸟儿的歌声中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Some of them are paths made in the early nineteen hundreds by men who climbed the mountain to cut trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

These are people who, I guess, they don't eat anything except for fruit and they think that trees should have the vote.

我猜,这些人呢,他们只吃水果,他们认为树也有投票权

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The oak wood for the oven comes from an organic farm in Pennsylvania that collects old wood from fallen trees.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

How do I know that there are trees?

我怎么知道树木是存在的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Orchid plants are blooming out of pots, climbing on trees or overflowing from baskets among the garden's permanent collection.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

The writer is the first man to map it and to name the natural objects it contains. Those berries are edible. That speckled creature that bolted across my path might be tamed. That lake between those trees will be called Lake Opal or, more artistically, Dishwater Lake.

而作者本人则是第一个为它绘制地图并为每一个自然事物,命名的人，这种讲过是可以吃的，那只身上带斑点,从我身边窜过，的动物也许能被驯服，树木之间的那个湖泊,可以叫“蛋白石湖“，或者，更艺术的，“洗盘水湖“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

After about five years, cacao trees start producing large fruits called pods, which grow near the trunk of the tree.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Once you get that, once you get the value, "Christmas tree," as opposed to "red lights," "red lights" being perhaps a part of some Christmas trees, then you see that you're back in a semiotic system and a very obvious one, because a Christmas tree is a not-menorah, not-Kwanzaa candles.

一旦认识到这点，红灯，指的其实是圣诞树“,红灯是圣诞树的一部分，那么你会发现你回到了符号学的解释中，圣诞树不用于犹太教或者非洲人的节日。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But protecting plants and trees in the garden may not be too difficult if you follow a few suggestions.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

and also there's a lot of nice trees and wild life. It's great.

那里也有许多漂亮的树和野生动植物，真的很不错。

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They walk along the Frijoles stream lined with green trees that once was the only water supply for the valley.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

As you walk amid the buildings and trees, as you see your friends and classmates, allow these emotions to float through you, freely, lightly.

在你走在建筑物和树木之间时，在你看到朋友和同学时，让那些情绪流遍你的全身，自由地，轻盈地。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So in the suburbs with some trees and green, I really love that.

所以我很喜欢长有树木和绿色植物的郊区。

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