By burning tree branches, pine needles, and pine cones, many not only warm their houses but improve the smell therein.

通过燃烧树枝、松针和松果，许多人不仅给屋子供暖，而且还改善里面的气味。

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Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry—William Shakespeare—but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches.

我们都知道，斯特拉福镇只有一个产业——威廉·莎士比亚，但这里有两个泾渭分明、而且越来越敌对的群体。

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The branches and leaves are luxuriant but well-spaced.

枝叶扶疏。

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But it was enough to cause the branches of the tree to drop their heavy load.

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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

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But successful evolutionary changes continued to form new branches.

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For others he was too timid, championing the oppressed but disbanding branches of his order when they became politically violent.

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As of Sunday morning, the Long Island Railroad had restored service to most branches but trains weren't running east of Ronkonkoma, Babylon and Huntington.

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But the various branches of Hamas, already divided over attempts to reach an accord with its secular rival, Fatah, which it ousted in January's election, are practically in open war over the abduction.

ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine