A brand was a mark of ownership burned into the hide of an animal with a hot iron.
烙印是用烙铁烧在牲畜皮上的所有权标记。
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There are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the depths of the thickets.
今天还留下当年的一些痕迹，例如一些烧焦了的古树干，便标志着那些惊慌战栗的难民在树林里露宿的地点。
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One expert judging the LawWithoutWalls projects, in fact, was Mark Harris, an attorney who, burned out by Big Law's treadmill, co-founded Axiom in 2000 with business executive Alec Guettel.