Material called a growth medium is put on the joint to keep it from getting dry and to help the two plants grow together.

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It's very hard to keep a body together in O'Connor, well, I won't get in to that.

在她的书里面,鲜有躯体能够保存完整，我暂且不解释这个问题。

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It's all very well to say, "Look at me, I'm reconciling harmonies, I'm creating patterns, I'm showing the purpose of image clusters and all the rest of it," but if you keep doing it, what you have yoked together becomes unyoked again.

我们可以说，“看，我协调了冲突，我创造了形势说，我展现了意象群“,但是如果一直深入，你联系起来的东西又会再次分开了。

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