| 单词 | hollow trunk |
| 释义 | hollow trunk We pass one whose hollow trunk has rotted away so completely that only a hinge of greenwood connects the tree's superstructure to its base. Times, Sunday Times Only when the workers began to chain-saw through the hollow trunk to get at the bear did it finally climb the trunk and emerge. The Sun Smoothly worn patches riddled with holes bored by deathwatch beetles will one day become windows into the hollow trunk. Times, Sunday Times Despite decades of work to shore it up with cables, the tree's hollow trunk was crumbling and its upper limbs were unsound, leaving it too weak to hold new supports. Times, Sunday Times Its hollow trunk acted like a furnace so that it was cooked from the inside. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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