Have You Seen the Tree
My neighbor Mrs. Gargan first told me about it.'Have you seen the tree?' she asked as I was sitting in the backyard enjoying the October twilight.

关于那棵树，最初是我的邻居加根太太告诉我的。“你见过那棵树吗?”她问道，当时我正坐在后院欣赏十月的暮色。

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'The one down at the corner,' she explained. 'It's a beautiful tree-all kinds of colors.Cars are stopping to look. You ought to see it.'

“就是下去拐角处的那棵”她解释说，“漂亮极了，五颜六色的。好多车路过都停下来看，你该去看看。”

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I told her I would, but I soon forgot about the tree. Three days later, I was jogging down the street, my mind swimming with petty worries, when a splash of bright orange caught my eye. For an instant, I thought someone's house had caught fire. Then I remembered the tree.

我对她说我会去看的，可转眼就忘记了关于树的事。三天后，我顺着街道慢跑，脑子里充斥着恼人的小事，忽然，一片耀眼的橘红色映入眼帘，有一会儿，我还以为是谁家的房子着火了呢，但我马上想到了那棵树。

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