A Christmas tree, in other words, is a sign that can only be understood intelligibly in terms of a certain cultural understanding.

也就是说，它仅仅用于，也仅仅在一定的文化背景中,才能有意义，被理解。

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and going to get the Christmas tree was always really a big deal in my house.

装饰圣诞树一直是我们家的一件非常重要的事情。

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They designed and created this timeline and then shared with the children based on a timeline and the family tree that the professor had in his story.

全是由他们自己设计并制作的,并与大家分享,这样的家谱就像教授在,他的故事中给出的那样。

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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

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The point I wanted to make is that for every node, except the leaves, the leaves are the bottom of a tree in this case, are weird, right, they draw trees where the root is at the top, and the leaves are at the bottom.

你没必要看到整棵树，我想说的重点是,对每个节点来说，除了叶子节点,叶子节点指的是树的最下面的节点，电脑科学家都很奇怪,他们画树的时候根是在最上面的。

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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。

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He had done a terrible thing and there he stood forever with his feet in the water below, and above him a tree with grapes hanging down, and dying of thirst.

他做了坏事,被惩罚永远站在水中,头上是一棵挂满葡萄的葡萄树,他口渴异常

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We've talked about the peak experience I have spent a lot of time in New York City, and even in the small park down the way I can watch and look at a tree.

我们说过我在大峡谷,我常常去，But，we，almost…,纽约，即使在顺路的小公园里,我也可以观赏一棵树。

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