美洲杉

Glorious as the sheep are, the true stars of California"s wilderness may be its plants―from giant sequoias and coastal redwoods to flowers setting meadows ablaze to tiny, brittle plants growing in the region"s infertile soils.

大角羊是很美丽，但加州荒野真正的明星应该是那些植物――从巨大的美洲杉和海滨的红树林到闪耀在大牧场上的鲜花，再到那些生长在贫瘠土地上的微小、柔弱的植物。

The soft reddish wood of either of two species of ''.

两种美洲杉微红色的软木料。

The soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees.

两种美洲杉微红色的软木料。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。