Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

我的孩子，只要你好好照顾玫瑰，那里就不会长出蓟草。

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I suppose none of you are sitting on a thistle by any chance?

我想你们没有谁碰巧坐到了一丛蓟上吧？

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This young gorilla had fallen asleep with a thistle grasped in his foot.

这个年轻的大猩猩睡着了，可是在他的脚上生长了植物蓟。

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Meanwhile, the home nations will be represented by Maypoles topped with a thistle, a leek, a rose and flax.

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And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

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The fashionable young Gunner became a hired gun, moving to Motherwell from Fratton Park, heading to Canberra City in Australia, to Fulham, Phoenix Inferno in the USA, Hearts and a final pit-stop at Partick Thistle in a career that ran from 1967 to 1984.

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