- The climbers' strategy looks chaotic but there's method in their madness.
对这些蔓生植物来说,疯长是它们唯一的思想
- Their growing tips circle like lassoes, searching out anchors for their spindly stems.
它们的生长锥如套索般圆形移动 来寻找可以攀援的物体.
- They put coils in their tendrils so that if their support moves, they will stretch and not snap.
因此向支撑的树移动时 它们会伸展而不会断裂
- But the frontrunners at this stage, the first to fill the clearing, are pioneers like the macaranga.
在这个舞台的其他地方 第一个长满地面的就是血桐等大戟科植物
- Their immense leaves capture huge amounts of sunlight,
它的大叶子捕捉了相当多的阳光
- so fueling their growth.
所以加速了它的生长
- As a result the macarangas grow a remarkable eight meters a year
结果是,这种血桐一年能长8米,
来自《行星地球 第一季 第八集 Planet Earth S01E08 热带雨林》第 52 行