"Now a merry life will begin again," thought the Tree.

“现在，快乐的生活又要开始了。”枞树想。

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Life is like a trace of roaming cloud, and also like a piece of fallen leaf; cloud perched with sky is transient and leaf depended on tree is in a rush.

人生如同一丝游云，一片落叶；云与天宇的相栖是暂短的，叶与树相依是匆匆的。

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She dare not come within a hundred miles of the Tree, for its smell, which is joy and life and health to you, is death and horror and despair to her.

她不敢走到离这棵树一百里以内，因为这棵树的气味能给你们带来欢乐、生命和健康，对她来说，却是死亡、恐惧和绝望。

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