The withered tree shakes in the cold wind.

枯树在冷风里摇。

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A thousand sails pass by the wrecked ship; ten thousand saplings shoot up beyond the withered tree.

沉船的旁边正有千帆驶过，病树的前头却是万木争春。

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But it was not an axe they heard — only a branch which still hung on a withered tree, and was moved up and down by the wind.

但是他们听到的不是斧子——只是一条灌木一直绑在一颗干枯的树上，风把它吹的一动一动的。

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Around eighteen months after launch, Nokia bought the company, the management team shattered and drifted apart, and Dopplr simply withered and died on the Web 2.0 tree, while the users could do little but watch it stumble and fall.

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