He told all the young people in the country, "I'll give each of you a seed. Plant it and show me your flower in one year, and I'll choose a new king from you."

他对这个国家里所有的年轻人说：“我给你们每个人一粒种子，把它种下，一年后向我展示你们种的花，我会从你们当中选出一位新国王。”

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Toyota sales were down 16% for the year, forcing the company to idle its new pickup plant in Texas for three months.

丰田汽车年销量下降16%，迫使该公司将位于德克萨斯州的新皮卡工厂停工三个月。

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You can probably guess the next question. What do we call a plant that produces new growth year after year?

你或许能猜到下一个问题：哪种植物能每年都生长呢？

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Some gardeners suggest that to get the best tasting parsley, you should plant new seeds every year.

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However, poor farmers frequently cannot afford to buy new seed each season, so they take their chances and replant the best of their seed from year to year in the belief that a new plant that is not quite as good as its parent is better than no plant at all.

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Or consider the case of a manufacturing firm that builds a new plant with an estimated life of 30 years, only to learn a year later that the widgets the plant was built to produce have become obsolete.

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