She walks circles around its trunk, one hand on the bark, releasing regrets from the old year and planning for the new one.

她绕着它的树干转圈，一只手按在树皮上，诉说着过去一年的遗憾和未来一年的计划。

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He stopped talking and looked curiously at the old chinaberry. He walked up to it, placed both hands on the bark and closed his eyes for a moment.

他中止了交谈，好奇地盯着那棵老楝树。只见他爬上那棵树，把双手扒着树皮，闭了一会儿眼睛。

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In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering little pecks on the bark.

埃及无花果树丛中莺群一片啁啾，麻雀在唱凯歌，啄木鸟爬土板栗树用嘴在树皮的窟窿里啄着。

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Two thousand years ago, the Greek doctor Hippocrates advised his patients to chew on the bark and leaves of the willow.

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The Greek doctor Hippocrates advised his patients to chew on the bark and leaves of the willow.

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Strange claw marks an inch thick have also been found on the bark of a shrub at Trewithen Gardens near Truro.

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Adam LaRoche and Ian Desmond homered for the Nationals on Bark in the Park day at Citi Field.

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Mr Djerrkura's home in north-eastern Arnhem Land was the site of Australia's first land-rights campaign in 1963, when a collection of clans known as the Yolngu sent a petition written on bark to Canberra, the Australian capital, objecting to the mining of bauxite on their land by Nabalco, a Swiss-Australian company.

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