They decided to see who could get to the top of the tree first.

他们决定看看谁能先到达树顶。

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The group of boys then decided to play a game to see who could climb to the top of the tree first.

这群男孩决定玩一个游戏，看谁能先爬到树顶。

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When a tree first starts growing in a certain area, it's likely that the climatic envelope—the temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and so on—suits it.

当一棵树开始在某个地区生长时，很可能是气候环境，如温度、湿度、降雨模式等适合它。

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Plant expert Doug Welsh says when you prune a rosebush, crape myrtle or shade tree, first remove dead, broken or diseased parts.

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The sense of the sentence pushes us on to the next line, which alters our view of the meaning of the word "fruit:": "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit / of that Forbidden Tree."

句意迫使我们看下一句，看了这句我们对“果子“的理解也发生变化：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

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First it may be that Adam and Eve had access to this tree up to that point. As long as their will conformed to the will of God there was no danger to their going on eternally, being immortal.

第一，亚当和夏娃很有可能，可以接近生命树,只要他们遵从上帝的旨意,此时的永生，是没有威胁的。

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"He skis off, he turns around to get a pass, he slams into a tree head first, he falls down unconscious, " reports Hay, who says he was a few feet away.

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The first tree in Reykjavik was planted in 1884 and now the city is relatively green.

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It then spins the wheel again, to tweak the first tree ever so slightly, at random.

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