The flower was very sick—almost dying, so Jim carefully dug up the flower, with roots, soil and everything.

这朵花病得很厉害——几乎要死了，所以吉姆小心翼翼地把它挖了出来，连根带土，什么都挖了出来。

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The flower first began to poke out of the soil in March, and in the past few days it had been growing at about six centimetres a day, according to Swissinfo news website.

根据Swissinfo新闻网站的报道，3月份花蕾开始破土而出，在过去的几天里它以每天约6厘米的速度在生长。

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Ian scooped some soil out of the flower pot.

伊恩从花盆里铲出了一些土。

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To test the liquid, he placed a drop in the soil of a dying flower growing in a pot in the room.

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The episode is known as the Younger Dryas, because in Scandinavia abundant pollen from a tundra flower called the mountain avens, Dryas octopetala, reappears in soil from this date, indicating that the forest had once more given way to tundra.

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