The tender shoots and the expanding flowers are nipped and withered, and of a vine that yearned to stretch its tendrils round the world there is left but a sapless stump.

柔嫩枝开花朵都被咬断并枯萎了， 而棵渴望将其卷须伸展到世界各萄树只剩下个没有汁液树桩。