他有一头需要修剪的浓密银发。

He had thick silver hair which needed cutting.

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我打电话来是为了你昨天修剪的那棵苹果树。

I was calling about the apple tree that you were trimming yesterday.

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As in "Mowing," Frost is writing about solitude, an essential loneliness.

写到“修剪草坪“，弗罗斯特是在写孤独，一种绝对的孤独。

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The point is that this cliched suburban life of mowing the lawn, Humbert is a foreigner--into something you can laugh at, something you can enjoy, something that you can apply the knight's move to.

这段话的意思是乡下人民这种修剪草坪，亨伯特是个外国人），变成了一种你感到开心,你很享受，你可以用迂回前进理论理解的事情。

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