In the 1980s, it burst into flower and died, as it doesevery 30 to 80 years; but human activity had deprived the pandas of access tolower altitude species that would once have served as a back-up.

20世纪80年代，竹子开花并死亡，实际上是每隔30至80年一个周期；但是人类活动阻断了大熊猫到低海拔地区获取其他可能食物的通路。

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Once a little toddler with bright curly blonde hair and deep brown eyes came up to us. She wore a white flower shirt and pink pants.

有个咿呀学语的小孩子朝他们走了过来，那孩子的头发卷曲且明亮，双眼泛着棕色，她穿的白花的上衣，粉色的裤子。

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Each flower, can only be opened once, can enjoy a season of warm life or tenderness.

每一朵花，只能开一次，只能享受一个季节的热烈的或者温柔的生命。

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The woman appears to have once held a flower in her right hand, until the painter began to rework it into a fan indicated by a blur of white paint and the upward gaze of her child.

ECONOMIST: Portrait of a lady and her daughter

But bamboo is something of a tragic plant -- it only flower once in its lifetime -- and the Jiuzhai Valley bamboo flowered and died in the 1980s, depriving pandas of the food that makes up 99% of their diet.

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