Some areas of Joshua Tree National Park in California, for example, can no longer support the trees that the park is named for.

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This may sound a little bit too much, but I'm no different than that animal, than that tree, than that rock.

这也许一下子很难接受，但我与各种动物没有不同，也与树木，岩石无异。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Second of all the motif of guards who block access to the tree of life suggests that no humans have access to immortality and the pursuit of immortality is futile.

第二点，那些阻止人类接近生命树的守卫,暗示着，任何人类关于永生的尝试,最后都是徒劳一场。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

One of the interesting things about London Bridge is that it's now no longer in London, it's in Arizona, you can see a palm tree here.

一件关于伦敦桥的趣事是,伦敦桥现在已经不在伦敦了,它在亚利桑那州,你们在这儿可以看见一棵棕榈树

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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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