他啪地从灌木上折下一小枝。

He snapped a twig off a bush.

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海马常用尾巴将自己固定在水草或珊瑚枝上，以过往的浮游动物为食。

Anchoring themselves to blades of grass or fingers of coral with their tails, seahorses spend their time feeding on zooplankton.

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桌子上放着几瓶酒，两个明晃晃的枝形烛台，烛火发出耀眼的光芒。

A few bottles of wine stood on the table and two bright candelabra shed a brilliant light.

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He always kept his poise to the top branches, climbing carefully with the same pains you use to fill a cup up to the brim, and even above the brim.

他始终稳住身子，不摇不晃地，直到那高高的顶枝上----小心翼翼地,往上爬，那全神贯注的样儿，就像，把一杯水倒满，满到了杯口，甚至满过了边缘。

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It's when I'm weary of considerations And life is too much like a pathless wood ; Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open.

那是每逢我厌倦于操心世事,而人生太像一片没有小径的森林,在里面摸索，一头撞在蛛网上，只感到验上又热辣，又痒痒，忽然，一根嫩枝迎面打来,那一只给打中了的眼睛疼得直掉泪。

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