The stem helps hold the roots up.

茎帮助支撑根。

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You can learn English from roots up.

你可以从词根开始学英语。

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And American soccer is developing "from the roots up."

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An old ivy vine, going bad at the roots, climbed half way up the wall.

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Extra care is needed not to break up the twisted, strange-looking roots;

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The small-"l" libertarians in the tea party movement identified the Republican Party as the coalition closest to their concerns about fiscal responsibility and the growth of government power, and they have gone about making the GOP more libertarian from the grass-roots up.

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But Lastoe said he thought his Brooklyn roots might make up for that.

WSJ: Hopes for a Second NYC Marathon

You get your grass-roots movement fired up to stand up and do something.

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