1. Given favourable conditions , this cherry tree will grow very rapidly.
    如果给它适宜的条件，这棵樱桃树会长得很快。

2. Guess-translating, he said one meant beobab tree, which is very common in West Africa, and another might be Mandinka for cow.
    猜着翻译，他说一个词的意思是beobab树，这种树在西非很常见，另外一个可能是母牛的曼丁哥语。

3. "It is very plain to me that he is round and tall like a tree."
    我现在才清楚，大象又圆又高，像棵树。”

4. Usually at the beginning of school, the noise of desks being opened and closed, and lessons repeated at the top of the children´s voices could be heard out in the street.
    平时，刚开始上课的时候，在街上就能听到课桌开开关关的乒乓声和孩子们一遍遍高声念课文的读书声。

5. Residents of the state of Wisconsin (威斯康星州), he notes, can lose their license for not paying library fines, neglecting to shovel snow away from the walk in front of their house, or failing to trim a tree whose branches hang over a neighbor's property
    他提到，威斯康星州的居民可能会因未付图书馆罚款，未将门前步道上的积雪清除，未将伸到邻家宅院上的树枝修剪掉而失去驾驶执照。

6. Result: the closest thing we have to a global family tree.
    他们的工作结果相当于一份全球家谱。

7. Over there, under a huge pine tree, a group of boys and girls are playing games.
    那边一棵大松树下一群孩子正在做游戏。

8. On both sides of the fireplace and opposite the window were crowded bookshelves, on the top of which packets of newspapers and manuscripts were piled up to the ceiling.
    在壁炉的两旁和窗户的对面挤满了书架，书架上面成捆的报纸和手稿一直堆放到了屋顶。

9. One of these, the bark of cinchona tree, was found to be excellent for treating malaria.
    其中，人们发现用金鸡纳树皮来治疗疟疾疗效极好。

10. On top I put a few General Staff maps I had picked up from friends.
    最上面我放了几张从朋友那里搞来的总参谋部的地图。