北部白颊长臂猿特殊的腕关节和强壮的上肢肌肉，可以让它们在树枝间荡来荡去，就如这张摄于菩玛公园的照片中显示的一样。

Northern white-cheeked gibbons have specialized wrist joints and powerful arm muscles, which allow them to swing from tree branches, like the male pictured above in Pu Mat.

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我把情况告诉了他，向他恳求并主动提出如果他让我进去，我愿意帮助他们清理博物馆花园里的树枝和其它垃圾。

I pleaded my case and offered to clean up the branches and other litter in the museums garden if he'd let me in.

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够不到那树枝，让人干着急。

The branch was tantalizingly out of reach.

《牛津词典》

We've a harvest holiday called Sukkot, where we actually sit outside, in this open structures that have natural coverings, branches, often where you can see the stars as a reminder of the time when the Israelites wandering in the desert, after they were released from slavery in Egypt.

我们会过一个收获的节日，叫做结茅节，那时，我们坐在外面，在自然的开阔天地,树枝是我们的屋顶,满天星斗让我们想起,以色列人摆脱了埃及人的奴役，在沙漠中流浪的岁月。

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