After about five years, cacao trees start producing large fruits called pods, which grow near the trunk of the tree.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

So we've got the root here of the--and then the trunk and then up above, this florid canopy would musically be the what?

我们来看看这里的根，然后是树干再往上，样华丽的树冠在音乐上被称为什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

we just piled up all the groceries in the trunk of the car and drive home.

我们会把杂货堆放在车的后备箱里，然后开车回家。

与众不同的纽约 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Agricultural specialists at the University of California suggest putting paper or cloth around the trunk and central branches of young citrus trees.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

So political philosophy is not just some kind of strange historical appendage attached to the trunk of political science; it is constitutive of its deepest problems.

所以政治哲学并非只是,奇怪的历史附属,依挂在政治科学的大主干上;,它是其最深层问题的本质。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Sylvie's bare feet and tiny fingers grabbed the tree's rough trunk.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Each trawl is basically a rope strung with twenty-five lobster traps - wire cages,each the size of a big trunk.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

It's four o'clock in the morning and the 68-year-old fisherman is dragging a plastic trunk of fish carcasses across the dock toward his boat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

She stored them in her maid's trunk, trusting Maher to keep them safe.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

"Henry Ford,of course,discovered,' You know what, I can make automobile trunk lids and fenders out of soybean oil'" Since then,Jackson says that researchers have produced an incredible range of products made from soybeans.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01