We used the branch of an old tree as a seat.

我们坐在一棵老树的树杈上。

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The big old tree opposite the school in my hometown has left many sweet memories.

我家乡学校对面的那棵高大的古树承载了许多甜蜜的回忆。

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The big old tree is still beside the playground.

那棵高大的老树仍然在操场旁边。

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He was safe. He sat under the tree and thought of the old men in Fairbanks.

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Ryan Didone was a fifteen-year-old passenger in a car that hit a tree.

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Buckley isn't an archaeologist. He studies tree rings, which record the growth history of trees that can be hundreds of years old, or even older.

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"My bathroom has been wiped out, " said the 21-year-old tree surgeon, who lives directly upstairs from the the couple.

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"You don't transplant an old tree, " Ratzinger said.

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White apple blossoms had begun to appear in the old tree, and I read the pale light in the sky as the shy illumination of a world to which I had yet to be introduced.

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