The night of our birth, a thunderstorm had cracked a tree in the courtyard of the new church, setting the building afire.

我们出生的那个晚上，雷暴劈裂了新教堂大院里的一棵树，使建筑着了火。

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The night of our birth, a thunderstorm had cracked a tree in the courtyard of the new church, setting the building afire until it was no more than a charred sliver of steeple and smoking pews.

我们出生的那个晚上，雷暴劈倒了新教堂大院里的一棵树，整个建筑着了火，最后只剩下了烧焦了的尖塔裂片和冒着烟的教堂板凳。

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And one night in an uptown square park, another group of men floured gasoline around every tree and from tree to tree and set a perfect little forest fire.

某个郊外别墅区停车场的夜晚，一群组员们把汽油洒到每棵树的四周再连成一片，最后完美的点燃。

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With all of the bribery, corruption, and kickback scandals plaguing German giant Siemens at the moment, we're half expecting to wake up tomorrow and learn that one of their executives drunkenly wrapped his exotic car around a tree after a night of boozing it up with notorious Deutchland bad boy Dietrich.

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Birds of paradise, cassowaries and a variety of other birds can be seen by day, while at night you can search for tree-kangaroos (yes, some kinds of kangaroo live in trees).

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While off-the-cuff comments about tree size may provide low-hanging fruit for late-night shows, they are not usually a good measure of a speech.

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