Recoiling in pain, I'd scrape my back or arms on the scaly tree bark.

我疼得直往后缩，后背或胳膊被粗糙的树皮刮伤。

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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' — probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

一个诗人说过：“只有上帝才能造出一棵树”——大概是因为很难想出把树皮贴上去的方法。

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They go on eating their famine food: tree leaves and bark, locusts and other insects, and even a flour-like clay that often causes death.

人们继续吃他们的饥荒饭：树叶树皮、蝗虫什么的，甚至吃面粉似的粘土，这土常把人吃死。

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One used mushrooms on mossy bark harvested from a fallen tree.

WSJ: Greenery, With Hints of the Forest and Desert

And then there is the strange life force of the Delphos, the way its hem pools on the ground like the spreading roots of a tree, and how the vertical pleating begins to look like bark.

WSJ: The Rich Pleasures of Pleats | Fortuny | Spanish Institute | By Laura Jacobs