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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Mella notes that a koala usually spends 98% of its life in trees.

梅拉指出，考拉一生中98%的时间都在树上度过。

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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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Forty-eight years ago, King wrote part of his eulogy in Saunders' wooden boat deep in the Bimini mangroves, a winding swamp of thick bushes and trees where 100 species of fish and marine life fill the murky waters.

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The lack of diversity was upsetting, he said, as was the short life span of the trees.

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Tradescant the Elder, especially, devoted much of his life to bringing new species of plants and trees to England, from all over the known world, and to cultivating new varieties from existing species.

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