You are absolutely correct. The leaves are from a bay tree.

你的看法完全正确。这些是月桂树的叶子。

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I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

我见过恶人大有势力，好像一根青翠树在本土生发。

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Wrap each prawn into pancetta slices and set them onto the skewers (made of wood or even better of the same thin branches of bay tree) adding a bay leaf in between for the taste.

把每只虾用切片的咸猪肉包起来，然后穿在木头钎子上(如果用月桂细枝做的钎子更佳)。

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Best of all is the horseshoe bay of Rondinara and tree-fringed Palombaggia, which you will see gracing postcards all over Corsica.

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It starts as an exit off the Dumbarton Bridge, which cuts across the southern edge of San Francisco Bay, runs though rough-and-tumble East Palo Alto, then tree-lined stretches dotted with multimillion-dollar mansions, and eventually hits, as the name implies, the Stanford campus.

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Christmas Tree Cove is one of these hidden spots, a beautiful rocky beach just south of Lunada Bay that requires a steep hike down to the water.

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