When I'm bored with my life, I take my pencils out in the back yard and doodle for an hour, trying to sketch trees that look like trees.

当我对生活感到厌倦时，我就拿出铅笔到后院去心不在焉地乱涂一个小时，试图画出看上去像树的树木速写。

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The forests of British Columbia, Unesco says, are home to more life per square yard than anywhere else on Earth: elk, wolves, hawks, bears… Yet there was barely a bird in the trees.

联合国教科文组织认为，在不列颠哥伦比亚省每平方码的土地上，动物比世界上任何其它地方都要多：驼鹿，狼，秃鹰，熊…，然而我没有看见树上有一只鸟。

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And after 1872 she rarely left her house and yard. In the last years of her life she returned to a smaller circle of family and friends.

1872年后，她就很少离开她的家和院子了。在她生命中的最后几年中，她的生活圈子仅仅局限在家人和朋友。

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But among thousands of people and performers who gathered at the Steel Yard baseball field in downtown Gary to celebrate Jackson's life were people who remembered the Jacksons before their fame and fortune.

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There was no sign of life on the street except for two boxers in a yard, unleashed and barking at us.

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In fear for his life he began to run around the yard faster than anything I had ever seen.

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But apparently life in the prison, which is beautifully preserved, with its well-manicured yard under large monkeypod trees just off the main drag, was not all bad.

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