These dots were markers that enabled them to measure every change in the size and shape of the flower as it went from bud to bloom.

这些点是标记，使他们能够测量花朵从萌芽到开花的每一次大小和形状的变化。

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Thousands of people are flocking to the northern Swiss city of Basel to see a giant, stinky flower bloom for the first time.

数以千计的人潮水般涌入瑞士北部城市巴塞尔就为一睹一种恶臭巨型花的首次盛开。

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Ignorance is like a delicate flower: touch it and the bloom is gone.

无知就像是一朵精致的花朵：摸一下，它就消失了。

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Their struggles marked the first bloom and the latest flower in a century of liberation.

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Marthinus points out an arum lily, a striking white bloom known as the 'death flower' because of its use in funeral arrangements.

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In design news, French designer Patrick Jouin unveiled his Bloom Table Lamp, a 3D-printed lamp that opens and closes like petals of a flower.

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