Beth was sorting the cones that lay thick under the hemlock near by, for she made pretty things with them.

贝思正在附近铁杉树下密密的球果中挑选，因为她用球果做成漂亮的东西。

She took them to a beautiful tree that had many, many cones on it.

她把他们带到了一棵漂亮的树前，树上有很多很多的球果。

When the temperature warms up, they know it's time to sprout leaves and bloom, or develop seed cones.

当温度升高，它们知道发开了，或者长出球果了。

And milder fires actually help these trees reproduce because the heat causes their cones to release new seeds.

并且较温和的火实际上有助于这些树的繁殖，因为高温会让它们的球果释放出新的子。

The red seed cones are as fine as candles.

红色的子球果像蜡烛一样细。

Cycads have cones with seeds that are directly fertilized by pollen.

苏铁有球果，子直接由粉受精。

And it doesn't just eat the leaves, it also eats the buds, the flowers, and the cones on the tree here.

而且它不只吃树叶，它还吃、朵和树上的球果。

Then new trees grew from the cones to take their place.

然后，新的树木从球果中长出， 取而代之。

The cones mature in a single season from the flowers.

球果在一个季节从中成熟。

Unless harvested by the squirrels, the cones discharge their seed and remain on the tree for many years.

除非被松鼠收割， 否则球果会排出子并留在树上很多年。

Along the rail fence the sumac held up its dark red cones of berries above bright flamecolored leaves.

沿着栅栏，漆树在鲜艳的火焰色叶子上方高举着暗红色的浆果球果。

But Nutkin sat upon a big flat rock, and played ninepins with a crab apple and green fir-cones.

但 Nutkin 坐在一块平坦的大石头上，用海棠和绿色冷杉球果玩九瓶。

The cones and seeds are like those of the magnifica in form but less than half as large.

球果和子在形状上与放大镜相似， 但不到其一半大。

On two small branches one and a half and two inches in diameter I counted 480 cones.

在两个直径分别为一英寸半和两英寸的小树枝上， 我数了数有 480 个球果。

The cones never fall off and never discharge their seeds until the tree or branch to which they belong dies.

在它们所属的树或树枝死亡之前， 球果永远不会脱落， 也不会排出子。

Its distinguishing features are cones that stand upright and whose scales come off with the seeds attached, rather than opening to let the seeds fall out.

它的显著特征在于，球果向上生长的，并且子附着在球果脱落的鳞片上，而不打开鳞片让子掉下来。

Known technically as gymnosperms, they have needle-like leaves which are almost always evergreen and reproduce through exposed seeds nestled within cones.

它们在技术上被称为裸子植物， 有针状的叶子， 几乎总常绿的，并通过球果内暴露的子进行繁殖。

Its cones hang down, not up, have scales that open rather than fall off, and have little extra scales that look like mouse butts.

它的球果向下生长的，而非向上，鳞片打开的，而不直接掉落，还额外长了些看起来像老鼠屁股一样的鳞片。

The staminate cones of all the coniferae are beautiful, growing in bright clusters, yellow, and rose, and crimson.

所有针叶树的雄蕊球果都很漂亮， 生长在明亮的簇中， 有黄色、玫瑰色和深红色。

On the topmost branches the fertile cones are set firmly on end like small casks.

在最顶端的树枝上， 肥沃的球果像小木桶一样牢固地竖立着。