The authorities said an organic bean-sprout farm near Hamburg may have been responsible, but tests seemed to suggest otherwise.

官方表示汉堡（德国城市）附近农场的一种有机豆芽也许是源头，但多次试验似乎表明源头是其他东西。

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This, hoping that it will be an attempt to sprout something in people's hearts.

希望这也是一种尝试，让人们的心中长出些什么东西来。

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Can you make a novel, as he says in the essay, that will "sprout wings and grow claws" in secret in his mind? That's an image taken from the metamorphosis of the butterfly within the chrysalis.

你能够让一本小说，就像他在那篇文章里说的那样，会在他,脑海里秘密的“展开翅膀，伸出爪子“？，这是从蝴蝶羽化中,借鉴来的比喻。

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Then an organic bean sprout farm in northern Germany - the centre of the outbreak - was thought to be responsible.

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But in a nod to ingenious evolutionary survival, overcooking also releases an unpleasant-smelling sulphur compound from the sprout's core, an olfactory offense that is the reason many people thumb their noses at this vegetable.

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Obviously, less than half of them are seeing the so-called green shoots of an economy looking to sprout some life into this economic desert.

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