Ah, you mean your quiz question - about the largest living tree?

啊，你是说你的测验问题——关于最大的活树？

In what U.S. state would you find the tallest living tree on earth?

你们会在美国的哪个州找到世界上现存最高的的树木？

So my question is this-what is the world's largest currently living tree?

所以我的问题如下——世界上现存的最大的树是什么？

So my question is this – what is the world's largest currently living tree?

所以我的测试问题是——世界上目前最大的活树是什么？

I said the largest currently living tree was, b) a giant redwood.

我说现在最大的活树是b）巨型红木树。

One of Earth's longest living trees is The Great Bristlecone Pine, found on the west coast of America.

地球上活得最久的树木之一是发现于北美西海岸的狐尾松。

But a forest is more than just living trees.

但森林不仅仅是活树。

It comes from a living plant, a living orange tree.

它来自一种活的植物，一棵活的橙树。

This is the tallest living tree in the world.

这是世界上最高的活树。

Instead of cutting the trees to use as building materials, they are finding ways to make money from the forest of living trees.

他们没有砍伐长叶松作为建筑材料，反而是想办法从活着的长叶松中赚钱。

It releases more carbon dioxide from decaying organic matter than it absorbs in living trees — the opposite of what it used to do.

它从腐烂的有机物质中释放出的二氧化碳比从活的树木中吸收的要多——这与它过去的做法相反。

Their towns are carved in fallen trunks as well as in those left standing, but never in sound, living trees or in the ground.

他们的城镇是在倒下的树干和那些仍然屹立的树干上雕刻而成的， 但从来没有在完好、活的树木或地面上雕刻过。