You can tell the age of a tree by counting its rings, but these records of trees' life really say a lot more.

你可以通过数年轮来判断树木的年龄，但是作为树木生命的记载，年轮能说明的东西远不止于此。

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Within a vertical distance of just a few tens of meters, trees disappear as a life-form and are replaced by low shrubs, herbs, and grasses.

就在几十米的垂直距离内，树木这种生命形式消失了，取而代之的是低矮的灌木、草本植物和小草。

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and also there's a lot of nice trees and wild life. It's great.

那里也有许多漂亮的树和野生动植物，真的很不错。

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Selection can shift a population from life in the trees to life on the ground by tiny steps but only if the right kind of variation is available.

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Terry Gilliam had a good idea to re-create the origins of the fairy-tale-spinning Brothers Grimm but, as it turns out, the movie is yet another noisy, hyperbolic, digital farce, with people jumping in and out of the frame and turning into corpses and then coming back to life, trees endlessly moving around the woods, and much general tumult, and the movie quickly becomes tedious.

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The council bid for a grant from the Big Tree Plant Fund and worked with Trees for Life nursery to grow the trees.

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