The United African Pavilion is a perfect cube and bears the images of a silk tree, the desert, seagulls, and giraffes, along with other ICONS of Africa.

非洲联合馆是一个完美的立方体，上面绘有合欢树、沙漠、海鸥、长颈鹿、以及其他有代表性的非洲形象。

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One strand of silk doesn't make a thread; one tree doesn't make a forest.

单丝不成线， 独木不成林。

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He was a legend to them, even if the stories of his jumps - "silk stories", as jumpers call them-tended to begin with a cuss, and a crash, and himself dangling from a tree.

在他们眼里，他就是一个传奇，即使他空降生涯的故事——“丝绸故事”，队员们这样称呼它们——似乎是从把他自己挂到树上这一糗事开始的。

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