We passed under an arch of branches which still bore a few autumn leaves and stopped as one man, but the corporal was waving us on.
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但当工人切下第一批49株梧桐的树干和几尺长的树丫时,新浪微博上相关话题的微博数目很快超过了一万条。
But once workers had reduced a first batch of 49 wutongs to trunks and a few feet of branches, the Chinese equivalents of Twitter rustled with more than 10,000 outraged messages.