Witnessing the original flower-like daughter become so abject, her mother was more than heartbroken.

看着原本如花似玉的女儿变成半死不活的样子，母亲心痛不已。

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Flower-like: Theacantharians are one of the four types of large amoebae that occur inmarine open waters.

类似鲜花：等幅骨虫（acantharia）是出现在海洋开阔水域的四种大变形虫之一。

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On getting up early in the morning, you will find the ground strewn all over with flower-like pistils fallen from locust trees.

像花而又不是花的那一种落蕊，早晨起来，会铺得满地。

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- Writing code that just looks-- I'm not even sure what this is supposed to look like, a little flower or pinwheel or something like that.

这代码写出来有点像-,我不确定这像什么，像朵花，或纸风车，或其他什么东西。

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Normally, these holes are arranged in a hexagonal pattern, but the algorithm generated a bizarre flower-like pattern of holes that no human would have thought of trying.

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Much work is left to get the proteins producing the kind of silicon or titanium dioxides that could run a computer or power your house, but the dream is to have synthetic creations that organically produce what would normally need a mining expedition -- imagine something akin to the glass-like Venus' Flower Basket sponge (pictured above) sitting in an Intel factory.

ENGADGET: UCSB engineers proteins that make silicon, leads hipsters to insist on organically-grown computers

Yet like Katyn, which eliminated the flower of the pre-war Polish elite, the plane crash also seems like a decapitation of Polish society.

ECONOMIST: Poland's President Lech Kaczynski dies in a plane crash