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断并枯萎了， 而棵渴望将其卷到世界各地的葡萄树只剩下个没有汁液的树桩。