Xue loved bamboo - and it's everywhere, some with stalks as wide as small trees towering 50 feet overhead.

因为薛涛爱竹，园内随处可见，有些竹子高高耸立，足有50英尺(约合15米)，竹干粗如小树。

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Sequoias are spectacular redwood trees, towering 300 feet high. But these trees have unusually shallow root systems. So why don't they crash to the ground in strong winds?

红杉是高耸三百呎的壮丽红木树，但这些树的根往往非常浅，那为何它们面对强风也不致折断倒地呢？

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The color comes from tannin that seeps from towering cypress trees draped in Spanish moss.

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Roses with their thorns stuck out everywhere, and the lilies, whose columnar stalks the girl had bunched at the center, shot up through the top of the bouquet like, like, like like insane trees towering above some insane world, he thought.

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Stretching along British Columbia's island-dotted coastline, its marvels include ancient red cedar cathedrals (some of the trees are more than a thousand years old) and other towering trees, glacier-fed fjords and wooded islands.

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Climbing the towering trees of the North American forests was a neat twist, but ultimately unsatisfying.

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