更糟糕的是，大风大雪会让树枝断裂。这些树枝经常会击中电线造成家庭和企业停电有时候还会停暖。

To make matters worse, high winds and heavy snow can break limbs off trees. These limbs often hit power lines, cutting power and sometimes heat to homes and businesses.

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然后他把树枝堆在自己身上，像毯子一样，尽可能地让自己身体暖和。

Then he piled branches on top of himself, like a blanket, to stay as warm as he could.

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够不到那树枝，让人干着急。

The branch was tantalizingly out of reach.

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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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