Sally says finding friendship is just like planting a tree.

莎莉说交朋友就像栽种一棵树。

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They would be lying there in the tree like, 'Oh, just let me just die up here,' because they lacked any kind of vigor.

因为它们一点活力都没有，他们会整天在树下躺着，一付‘噢，实在活不起了，让我死在这里好了’的样子。

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I floated up through the branches and studied their fractal patterns, which seemed just like a normal tree, not a fake computer-generated one.

我在树枝间漂浮，研究它的分叉形态，发现它像个普通的树，而不是电脑做图的那种假树。

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Her torso, outlined in light, was like the trunk of a cypress tree just entering the soil.

ECONOMIST: Charis Wilson

Ms. SYLVESTER: The fact that they'd hang on to something like that, that's a tree, that's just covered in people's spit.

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