Then there's a " family tree" , which people draw up on a big piece of paper, usually, and it looks like this.

然后是“家谱” ，人们通常将它画在一张大纸上，它看起来像这样。

Before it drew up on the gravel of the courtyard, all the servants in the house were assembled to receive him with a grave, decent welcome, befitting a house of death.

在它停在院子的碎石地上之前，房子里所有的仆人都聚集在一起，以一种庄严、体面的欢迎方式迎接他，这与死亡之屋相得益彰。

I have a special connection to this story because the idea that became LEAF was drawn up on a whiteboard in my old office at Environmental Defense Fund over eight years ago.

我与这个故事有着特殊的联系，因为成为 LEAF 的想法是八年前在我环境保护基金的旧办公室的白板上画出来的。

The ancient, withered creature, wearing a green satin dress, a black velvet cloak and a white hat with purple feathers, jerked slowly, slowly up the steps as though she were being drawn up on wires.

那个身穿绿色缎子裙子、黑色天鹅绒斗篷和带紫色羽毛的白色帽子的古老而枯萎的生物，慢慢地、缓慢地爬上台阶，仿佛她被拉在电线上。