They grab the edges of the ripe flowers, stick their heads inside, and with the hunched intensity of vampires, drink the flowers dry.

它们抓住成熟花朵的花瓣边缘，把头伸进去，如同弯腰驼背的吸血鬼一样，一口气将花朵中的花蜜吸个干净。

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In winter, the flowers and trees in the garden became dry and weak.

在冬天，花园里的花草树木变得干燥脆弱。

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And despite the late spring, plants and flowers thrived as dry weather stopped them from being overgrown by vigorous grasses.

并且虽然今年的春天来得很晚，很多植物和花卉却长得很好，因为干燥的天气避免了野草疯长，这对它们是有利的。

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But the emotional pull of the area is apparent from the bunches of flowers lining the dry earth, and the golden plaques on stones, honouring individual victims.

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Rod and I stopped there and lounged among the flowers, in a dry westerly wind, talking about the downland poet Edward Thomas, the downland painter Eric Ravilious, and why I should never have slept in Chanctonbury Ring.

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These salt "flowers" are laid in the sun to dry for a year.

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