A motorboat nosed out of the mist and nudged into the branches of a tree.

一艘摩托艇缓缓地驶出薄雾，轻触上一棵树的枝条。

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The different races were, in his view, branches of a single tree.

在他看来，不同的种族就好比一棵树上的枝杈。

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This is one of the branches of the Roosevelt family.

这是罗斯福家族的一个支系。

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Agricultural specialists at the University of California suggest putting paper or cloth around the trunk and central branches of young citrus trees.

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The genome starts piling on mutations that mean nothing; that's how they date the branches of the genome, by looking at the number of neutral mutations.

基因积累了许多无意义的突变,这就是他们如何鉴定基因分支的年代,看中性突变的数量就行了

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Throughout all of this, they are subjected to a course of rigorous study and physical training that will lead them to adopt prominent positions in the military and other branches of public service.

这一进程，需要他们遵循,严格的学习及体能的训练,以便他们顺利接掌重要的军职,及其它公共服务事项。

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They seemed to hold a mystery as inscrutable as the clotted branches of their mangroves.

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"This will put all the branches of government into one man's hand, " Simsek said.

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Commanders are urging soldiers to attend, and other branches of the service offer similar programs.

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