Root vegetables are planted in a pot whose "soil" is made of malt and hazelnut flour.

根类蔬菜被种植到一个花盆中，“土壤”是用麦芽和榛子粉做成的。

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The mineral elements from the soil that are usable by the plant must be dissolved in the soil solution before they can be taken into the root.

土壤中对植物有用的矿物质元素必须先溶解在土壤溶液中，然后才能被根吸收。

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The boy dug it out carefully with its root and some soil.

男孩小心地将它连根带土地挖了出来。

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They say the roots develop better. But Jeffrey Dinslage, president of Nature Hills Nursery in Omaha,Nebraska, points out that bare-root roses come without soil.

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Bare-root plants have no soil on their roots.

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And now, for the first time in centuries, grapevines are taking root in soil that was once considered infertile.

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Thanks to the Federal Reserve and other destructive creations of government, the process of creative destruction rarely takes root in American soil anymore.

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My immobility was complete, as if tendrils of myself had burrowed down and sought root in the soil of Japan, rendering me brainless vegetation.

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