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单词 bough
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  • Moreover, fruit trees by bending their boughs towards the earth seem to offer their crop to man.
  • Sturdy maples threw curving, interlacing boughs across, through which the sun-light filtered and flickered.
  • The cold sunlight came through the golden maple boughs and lay in patches on the undergrowth of drying golden-rod and asters.
  • The natives cut the road, digging a ditch which they covered over with boughs and earth.
  • There were the beehives, and the bees humming among the orchard boughs.

Examplesofbough

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Hemmed in by the intertwining boughs of the border, the portrait emphasises the solipsistic pleasure of individuated lyric poetry.
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Nowadays, nobody misses shillings, pennies and ha'pennies; surely in thirty years, no one would missbough, ache, or sew.
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There are a lot of other things such as pea sticks and bean boughs which a farmer may want to carry.
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We are given examples such as the word "bough," and told of difficulties of pronunciation.
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The proposed reforms would be like removing one of the principal boughs and grafting on a completely new variety.
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The lateral boughs were removed, and the tree is perfectly healthy and safe to-day.
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We must pursue our policy so as to bend the boughs while they are still twigs.
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They see romantic love withering on theboughand all the rest of it.
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You do not cut the branches off a tree and expect the branches, the boughs and the flowers to develop future trees.
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The whole thing withered on thebough.
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The view was that there was a very urgent need for it to be taken up, otherwise the funding for it would wither on thebough.
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However, a successful candidate had first to test his mettle by plucking a goldenboughfrom one of the trees in the sacred grove.
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The home they built was constructed out of poles covered with hemlock boughs.
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The wood-frame buildings were covered with panels of decorative boughs.
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Theyboughfarming lands here and settled down.
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