" The branches are quite gray and there's not a single leaf anywhere, " Colin went on.
“树枝很灰,到处都没有一片叶子,”科林继续说道。
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A single leaf detached itself from the plane tree at the end of the street, and in that pause and suspension fell.
一片叶子从街道尽头的梧桐树上脱落,在那停顿和悬浮中落下。
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And it can take up to a month to process a single leaf, which gives their liver plenty of time to process those toxins.
处理一片叶子可能需要长达一个月的时间,这让它们的肝脏有足够的时间来处理这些毒素。
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Meanwhile, E.E. Cummings wrote poems whose shapes were as important as the words themselves, in this case amplifying the sad loneliness of a single leaf falling through space.
I could see only the one sublime mountain, the one glacier, the one lake; the whole veiled with one blue shadow-rock, ice, and water close together without a single leaf or sign of life.