Of course, a number of factors will dictate how long an apple tree can survive.

当然，一棵苹果树能存活多久是由许多因素决定的。

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My heart is like an apple tree.

我的心就像一棵苹果树。

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This isn't an apple tree, is it?

这不是一棵苹果树，是吗？

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And so iconography began to represent this tree as an apple tree and so on, but it's not an apple tree.

因此插画中都将其描绘为一棵苹果树,但它确实不是苹果树。

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Stephanie Crocker started in 2001 when she and her husband John bought a house that had an old apple tree in the backyard.

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Myriad objects to the comparison of the gene sequences with a branch or an apple off of a tree, and its lawyers convinced a majority of the judges on the Federal Circuit to agree.

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Myriad has no more right to patent these parts of the naturally occurring code in the human genome than it would to patent an apple, or a branch off of a tree that could be used to hit a ball or scratch your back, Ravicher says.

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