A Woodman was felling a tree on the bank of a river, when his axe, glancing off the trunk, flew out of his hands and fell into the water.

有一个樵夫在河边砍树，突然，他的斧子飞离了树干，从手中落入水里。

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In the few hours I was there, Shade scraped the outer layers off several leaves, dipped some others in scalding water, and burned the trunk with a soldering iron.

在我到达前几小时内，薛德刮去了几片树叶的外层，将另一些树叶浸在滚烫的开水里，还用烙铁去烫树干。

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When, in the early ages of the Earth, land and water had not yet distinctly separated, huge misshapen amphibious creatures walked the trunk-less forests growing on the oozing silt.

在大地的混沌时期，水陆还没有清楚地分开，体积巨大、奇形怪状的两栖动物，在从淤泥地里生长出来的、没有树身的森林中行走。

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The transmitter, which sits in the car's trunk, is also water resistant (to IPX4 standard).

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He dropped his trunk into the dark water, and then raised it to pour gallons and gallons of water down his gullet.

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It takes about an hour to scrub her down and she lays on her side, poking her trunk up out of the water and adjusting her ears to allow her handlers better access.

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