Like a family tree that you might use to trace back through generations of ancestors, only it's showing a family of genetically related languages instead of people.

就像你可以追溯祖先的家谱一样，它只是在显示与遗传相关的语言，而不是人类。

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She lived in a small house three miles away, and was now going to the market to sell the apples which grew on the only tree in her little garden.

她住在三英里外的一所小房子里。现在她要到市场上去卖她小花园里唯一的那棵树上的苹果。

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The symbolism may come from the fact that the olive tree takes a long time to produce fruit, so olives could only be cultivated successfully in long periods of peace.

它的象征意义可能来自于橄榄树需要很长时间才能结出果实，所以橄榄只能在长久的和平时期才能被成功种植。

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The only evidence was cut into a tree and a fence: the letters C-R-O and the word Croatoan,C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N.

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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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His movement had shaken the young tree only a tiny bit.

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There's a tractor-trailer overturned near a tree, and the only upright and functioning truck on this road is driven by men from the local power cooperative.

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It also features Betsy, a local water buffalo, that only has a rope and a tree between herself and freedom.

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But where it should have seen the forest, it found only a single tree to chop down.

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