By offering fly-through hospitality, the trees win the prize of a brush with a pollen-covered bee and the chance of cross-pollination with another tree.

杏树为蜜蜂提供了丰盛的食物和落脚休息之地，其回报是浑身沾满花粉的蜜蜂与花朵的亲密接触，因而得到与其他杏树异株授粉的机会。

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In an up-and-down life, including a brush with cocaine in the 1980s that wiped out his finances and got him convicted for armed robbery, it was hard to quit.

在起伏颠簸的一生中，包括八十年代与可卡因有关的一笔劣迹，这一劣迹使他耗尽财产并使他因持械抢劫而被判罪，放弃吸烟是很困难的。

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I gave it a quick brush with my hairbrush.

我用发刷对它进行了一番迅速的梳理。

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