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# you know are not trees for food
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"you know are not trees that grow fruit to eat"
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# siege works
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These are tools and structures, such as ladders and towers, that are needed to lay siege to a city.
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# until it falls
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This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "until the people of the city lose the war" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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# it falls
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Here "it" refers to the city which represents the people of the city. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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