In medieval europe an exploding population and hard-working monks put paid to perhaps half its temperate oak and beech woods-mostly , as is usually the case , to clear space for crops .
The junction between elm street and beech street was an accident black spot .
榆树街和山毛榉街的交叉处是交通事故的高发地段。
The rotting beech and oak trunks have become seedbeds for foxgloves and brambles .
腐烂的山毛榉和橡树树干变成了黄地毛和黑莓的苗床。
Southern beech , rimu and kahikatea ( both tall conifers ) once covered more than 80 percent of new zealand , but the lowland forests are now less extensive .
If someone in this forest had been watching her-a man with a gun , for instance , hiding inside a copse of leafy beech trees-he would have noticed how quickly she moved up the path and how direly she scowled at the ground ahead of her feet .