Silence once more; nothing was stirring, not even the leaves on the yew tree.

又一阵沉默，没有一丝动静，连的树叶都静止了。

According to the Daily Mail, one yew tree in Britain is believed to be more than five thousand years old!

据英国《每日邮报》报道，英国有一棵据信已经有五千多年的历史了！

The yew tree is known for its longevity and is believed to be one of the most long-lived trees in Europe.

以其长寿而闻名，被欧洲最长寿的树木之一。

On each side stood a sable bush-holly or yew.

两旁各有一棵紫貂灌木冬青或。

So he named it Prototaxites, which means " first yew, " after the tree he thought it most resembled.

所以他将它命名 Prototaxites，意思“第一个”，以他最相似的树命名。

They were standing instead in a dark and overgrown graveyard; the black outline of a small church was visible beyond a large yew tree to their right.

他们站在一片黑暗的杂草丛生的墓地上，可以看到右边一棵高大的后面一所小教堂的黑色轮廓。

From yew to hickory to ash, each wood had its own strengths and weaknesses, and it took a skilled craftsman to choose the right one for a particular bow.

从到山核桃再到梣木，每种木材都有自己的优点和缺点，需要熟练的工匠才能特定的弓选择合适的木材。

The California nutmeg (Torreya californica), a handsome evergreen belonging to the yew family, forms small groves near the cascades a mile or two below the foot of the Valley.

加利福尼亚肉蔻 (Torreya californica) 科的一种漂亮的常绿植物， 在山谷脚下一两英里处的瀑布附近形成小树林。

The grounds here were more confined, the flower-beds showed no very careful tendance, and large clumps of trees, chiefly of sombre yews, had risen high, not ten yards from the windows.

这里的土地更加狭窄，花坛没有经过精心打理，大片的树木，主要阴暗的，高高地耸立在离窗户不到十码的地方。