An early explorer to the area once described them as “the most repulsive tree in the vegetable kingdom.”

该地区的早期探险家曾将其描述为“植物王国中最令人厌恶的树木。”

I observed that all these exhibits from the vegetable kingdom were attacthed to the seafloor by only the most makeshift methods.

我观察到，所有这里的植物界产品，跟土壤只是表面上连接起来。

It's an odd anomaly in this bizarre element! as one witty naturalist puts it. The animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable kingdom doesn't!

动物类开花，植物类不开花，大海真是奇异例外的环境，古怪新奇的自然！

This is the doctrine of Malthus, applied to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms.

这就是马尔萨斯的学说， 适用于整个动物界和植物界。

In the vegetable kingdom Mr. Mivart only alludes to two cases, namely the structure of the flowers of orchids, and the movements of climbing plants.

在植物界， Mivart先生只提到了两种情况， 即兰花的花的结构和攀缘植物的运动。

As for the foregrounds passing before our eyes, they were fantastically carved rocks, forests of trees that had crossed over from the vegetable kingdom into the mineral kingdom, their motionless silhouettes sprawling beneath the waves.

在我们眼前闪过的前列景象，是那离奇古怪的割切成的大石块，从植物界到动物界的树林，那屹立不动的形影在海水中挤眉弄眼的怪样子。

If we look even to the two main divisions—namely, to the animal and vegetable kingdoms—certain low forms are so far intermediate in character that naturalists have disputed to which kingdom they should be referred.

如果我们甚至看一下两个主要部分— —即动物界和植物界— — 某些低等类型的特征迄今为止处于中间状态， 以至于博物学家对它们应该归入哪个王国存在争议。

It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food, and no prudential restraint from marriage.

它是马尔萨斯的学说， 以多方面的力量应用于整个动物界和植物界；因为在这种情况下， 不可能人为地增加食物， 也不会审慎地限制婚姻。