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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Speeding down this road with no traffic, no lampposts and no speed traps - just ancient plane trees towering on both sides - I dismissed the figure as a weird prank.

沿着这条没有交通拥挤，没有路灯，没有限速，只是两边种满树木的道路上加速，我把这个景象当作一个奇怪的恶作剧。

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In a cacao plantation, ocelots dart under towering saman trees and howler monkeys shriek at visitors.

在一个可可种植园里，豹猫在高耸的雨木下飞蹿而过，还有吼猴对着来访者尖叫。

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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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