She is trapped in trunks,closets, and locked rooms.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

And these tree trunks were the chords and at the base of each of these chords at least conceptually, theoretically, is this thing called the root.

这些树干就是和弦，而每个和弦的底部，从理论上说，就是被称为根的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

One of the things that we discussed was this type of imagery here where you have vertically these pillars, if you will, or we could even call--the more I sort of looked at this--sort of call them tree trunks almost.

我们讨论的问题之一是这里的这种意象，这些垂直的柱子，如果你愿意的话，我们可以称之为，我越看越觉得称之为树干比较好。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The leaves grow on tree trunks.

VOA: special.2010.04.06