On Earth, plants use gravity to position themselves – shoots grow up, roots grow down.

在地球上，植物利用重力来确定自己的位置——嫩枝向上生长，根向下生长。

Oh don't you dare give him a sprig.

哦，不要给他一根小嫩枝。

That means high-calorie young leaves and shoots, or if you're a carnivore, more red meat.

那来自于高热量的嫩叶和嫩枝，是食肉动物，就得吃更多的肉。

The wet young beeches were undergoing amputations, bruises, cripplings, and harsh lacerations, from which the wasting sap would bleed for many a day to come, and which would leave scars visible till the day of their burning.

新生的湿润嫩枝正遭受摧残蹂躏，被吹断、折裂，伤痕累累，接下来的很多日子里，树汁会不断从裂缝种流淌出来，直到树木被柴烧掉时还能看到这些伤疤。

Panpan, would you just look around you. Nature provides everything we need, like this twig. It has all the nutrients to help us survive. Mmm. Delicious.

胖胖，先看看的周围。大自然给了我们所需要的一切，比这个小嫩枝。他有我们生活所需要的所有营养。嗯，好吃。

But as the shoots grow, they lose those nutrients -- so the pandas move to higher elevations and switch to eating the shoots of another bamboo species, called arrow bamboo.

但随着嫩枝生长，大熊猫会失去这些营养，所以它们迁移到海拔更高的地方，并开始吃箭竹的嫩枝。

They prefer to eat shrubs and the leaves and twigs of trees, and can stand on their hind legs to reach branches up to 14 feet or 6 meters above the ground.

它们比较喜欢吃灌木、树叶和树木的嫩枝，凭借它们的后腿可以达到高于地面14英尺或着6米的树的分枝。

Birds nested in the young trees.

禽鸟在嫩枝上结巢。

You have to focus on high-quality foods, high-quality plants...the buds, the shoots, the young leaves...to try to get those minerals, those nutrients to build the babies.

必须要专吃那些高质量的食物高质量的植物，嫩芽，嫩枝，嫩叶等来得到这些矿物质，这些用来孕育小恐龙的营养物质。

They were sago palms, vegetation that grows without being cultivated; like mulberry trees, they reproduce by means of shoots and seeds.

这是西米树，是不用种植就生长起来的植物，像桑树那样，由于自己的嫩枝和种子，不需人工，自然繁殖滋长。

They eat leaves, twigs, and the inner bark of deciduous trees, as well as shrubs, aquatic plants, and grasses.

它们吃叶子，嫩枝和落叶性树木的内层树皮，还有灌木、水生植物、草等。

A final section in the book provides practical advice on life after childbirth, including guidance on breastfeeding and the correct way to handle infants, who are described as tender twigs.

书中最后一部分则提供了产后生活的实用建议，涵盖了哺乳指导以及正确抱持婴儿的方法，婴儿被形容为娇嫩的嫩枝。

So a healthy plant will send out shoots called stolons, and those will root when they touch the ground, and then a new plant will grow there.

因此， 健康的植物会发出称为匍匐茎的嫩枝，这些嫩枝在接触地面时会生根，随后那里便会长出一株新植物。

Nature provides everything we need, like this twig.

大自然给了我们所需要的一切 比这个小嫩枝。

So, it says: " Young branch of a plant" .

所以，它说的是：“植物的嫩枝”。

Then it stretches and begins to sprout, quite timidly at first, a charming, harmless little twig reaching toward the sun.

然后它伸展身体开始发芽，很腼腆地朝着太阳长出秀丽无害的嫩枝。