S pass not ten minutes before ; and assured that he was at the catalans , they sat down under the budding foliage of the planes and sycamores , in the branches of which the birds were singing their welcome to one of the first days of spring 他们既确知了他还在迦太罗尼亚人的村里。便在长着嫩叶的梧桐树下和大枫树底下坐下来。头上的树枝间，小鸟们正在动人地合唱着，歌唱春天的好时光。
The boys went back to camp , a good deal awed ; but they found there was still something to be thankful for , because the great sycamore , the shelter of their beds , was a ruin , now , blasted by the lightnings , and they were not under it when the catastrophe happened 孩子们回到了宿营地他们发现被吓得够呛，值得庆幸的是紧挨着他们床铺的那棵梧桐树被雷劈倒，而雷殛之时，他们恰巧不在树下。露营地的一切都被大雨淋透了，那堆篝火也给浇灭了。
In the mild breezes of the west and of the east the lofty trees wave in different directions their first class foliage , the wafty sycamore , the lebanonian cedar , the exalted planetree , the eugenic eucalyptus and other ornaments of the arboreal world with which that region is thoroughly well supplied 在微微的西风和东风中，高耸的树朝四面八方摇摆着它们那优美的茂叶，飘香的埃及榕黎巴嫩杉冲天的法国梧桐良种按树以及郁郁葱葱遍布这一地区的其他乔木界瑰宝。
M . bertuccio had outdone himself in the taste displayed in furnishing , and in the rapidity with which it was executed . it is told that the duc d antin removed in a single night a whole avenue of trees that annoyed louis xiv ; in three days m . bertuccio planted an entirely bare court with poplars , large spreading sycamores to shade the different parts of the house , and in the foreground , instead of the usual paving - stones , half hidden by the grass , there extended a lawn but that morning laid down , and upon which the water was yet glistening 从前安顿公爵在一夜之间就把整条大马路上的树木全部砍掉了，因此而惹恼了路易十四贝尔图乔先生则在三天之内把一座完全光秃秃的前庭种满了白杨树和丫枝纵横的大枫树，使浓荫覆盖着房子的前前后后房子前面通常都是半掩在杂草里的石子路，但这儿却伸展着一条青草铺成的走道，这条青草小道还是那天早晨才铺成的呢，草上的水珠还在闪闪发光呢。
" yes , every one that s friends to me - or wants to be " ; and she glanced ever so furtively at tom , but he talked right along to amy lawrence about the terrible storm on the island , and how the lightning tore the great sycamore tree " all to flinders " while he was " standing within three feet of it . “对，凡是我的朋友，我都请。还有想和我交朋友的人，我也请。 ”说完，她偷偷瞥了一眼汤姆，可是他正跟艾美劳伦斯讲岛上那场可怕的暴风雨的故事：当时一道闪电划破长空，把那棵大梧桐树“劈成碎片” ，而他自己站得离那棵大梧桐树还“不到三英尺远” 。
