Thirty years ago, if you were walking along the coast of the Netherlands and picked a two-spot ladybug off the leaf of a European lime tree, chances were that the bug would be red with black spots.

30年前，如果你走在荷兰的海岸边，从菩提树上取下一只双斑瓢虫，你会发现这只瓢虫的颜色是红色黑斑的；

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Perhapss three years ago or just last Tuesdaya certain leaf fluttered from one shoulder to another?

也许在三年前，或者就是上个星期二，某片树叶从他们一个人的肩上飘舞到另一个人的肩上？ ？

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That song is called "Maple Leaf Rag." Scott Joplin wrote it more than one hundred years ago.

这首歌曲叫“枫叶拉格”，是司格特·乔普林100年以前的写的。

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The highest price ever fetched for a single Washington inaugural leaf went to the owners of this magazine nine months ago.

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