Say the word 'cactus,' and many people get a mental picture of a thick, straight up trunk with rounded tip, and sturdy branches curving to the vertical in a candelabra effect.

一提到仙人掌，很多人脑中就会浮现出这样一副画面：粗直的树榦、圆形的顶，强健的枝干如烛台状垂直立著。

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Say the word 'cactus, ' and many people get a mental picture of a thick, straight up trunk with rounded tip, and sturdy branches curving to the vertical in a candelabra effect.

一提到仙人掌，很多人脑中就会浮现出这样一副画面：粗直的树榦、圆形的顶，强健的枝干如烛台状垂直立著。

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He had promised to bring up her trunk from the village while she went in to visit the grandmother.

他答应在她去看望祖母的时候，把她的箱子从村子里搬出来。

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So we've got the root here of the--and then the trunk and then up above, this florid canopy would musically be the what?

我们来看看这里的根，然后是树干再往上，样华丽的树冠在音乐上被称为什么呢？

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we just piled up all the groceries in the trunk of the car and drive home.

我们会把杂货堆放在车的后备箱里，然后开车回家。

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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

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However, Musial would then go to the back of the car and open up the trunk so that he could distribute souvenirs to the parishioners.

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But as we carried my trunk up two flights of stairs terror invaded me.

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