The Master smiled. "Tell me, my dear", he said, "when you were born, did you come into the world like a star from the sky or out of it like a leaf from a tree"?

大师笑了“告诉我，孩子，”他说，“你是像一颗星星来自天空一样出生的，还是像一片树叶脱离树木一样离去的呢？”

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What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice , as a leaf from a tree.

我们表现最好、做得最完美的工作，就是我们经过长久练习而了解得最透彻的工作。这成果在不知不觉中降临，悄然如树叶飘落。

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Two fingerlike parts on the tip of the trunk allow the elephant to perform delicate maneuvers such as picking a berry from the ground or plucking a single leaf off a tree.

象鼻末端两个指状的部分让大象可以做精细的动作，像从地上捡起一枚浆果，或者是从树上采摘一片叶子。

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One of the guides chops down a huge leaf from a pandanus tree with a machete and demonstrates some of its uses.

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Not a single leaf appears, in any of the photos, to have fallen from a single tree due to radiation.

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Simpson's defense attempted to suggest Wednesday hair analysis is so vague it is like picking up a leaf and attempting to tell which tree it fell from.

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