我们在那些较大的树的树心上砍出了一些洞作为小屋，并用大树枝和嫩枝，在一棵树上建了一间大屋，这棵树已经倒了下来，压在另一棵树上。 这些劳作很艰苦。

We cut out holes in the center of larger trees, to make little huts, and built a large one out of large branches and twigs, upon a tree that had fallen down and was resting on another.

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我们出生的那个晚上，雷暴劈倒了新教堂大院里的一棵树，整个建筑着了火，最后只剩下了烧焦了的尖塔裂片和冒着烟的教堂板凳。

The night of our birth, a thunderstorm had cracked a tree in the courtyard of the new church, setting the building afire until it was no more than a charred sliver of steeple and smoking pews.

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大风刮倒了我们院子里的一棵树。

The strong winds tumbled a tree in our yard.

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