A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
植物
Plant
Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant a seed this plants the giant miracle.
感激这颗看似微不足道的种子，却在这颗种子上播下了巨大的奇迹。
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
当老人种下他们知道自己永远不会坐在树荫下的树时，一个社会就会变得伟大。
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
即使我知道明天这个世界将会破碎，我仍然会种下我的苹果树。
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
杂草是一种植物，除了学会如何成行生长外，它已经掌握了所有的生存技能。
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
一个人不能爱一棵修剪过的植物，那么他要么做得不好，要么缺乏感情。
For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
多年来，我讨厌大自然。作为一名学生，我拒绝把一棵植物放在任何地方——也就是说，一棵活的植物。死掉的植物还好。
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
我种了很多树。我非常相信为子孙后代种植东西。我讨厌你只为今天而活的当下文化。
I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.
我有点老了，总是在后院修修补补。自从我在户外玩耍长大后，我仍然喜欢种植植物，坐在甲板上，或者去远足。
We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
我们曾说过，生命的规模是如此之小，以致于个体在其整个存在过程中还没有足够的专门化到足以成为独特的植物或动物;然而，这些都是更简单形式的确定的生命。
So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
所以我开始研究马铃薯的氧化系统，如果氧化系统受损，马铃薯会变成棕色。我这样做是希望通过这些研究，发现了解肾上腺功能的关键。
Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
接着，人们发现它在生理和结构上与植物是一样的，它是植物的活的部分，它在植物和动物有机体中表现出生命和工作。
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
什么是杂草?一种其优点从未被发现的植物。
I'm a plant eater.
我是食草动物。
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
核电站一年内的所有废料都可以储存在桌子下面。
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
我喜欢满身灰尘，骑马，种土豆和棉花。
The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade.
种下这棵树的人不会享受它的阴凉。
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
如果一棵树死了，在它的地方再种一棵。