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.

柔嫩的枝条和盛开的花朵都被咬断了， 而棵渴卷须伸展到世界各地的葡萄树只剩下个没有汁液的树桩。