"saplings" in Chinese (Simplified)

• 幼树
• 树苗

Definition

刚刚开始生长的幼树，还没有完全长大。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Simplified))

主要用于环保、园艺或林业领域，仅指树木的幼苗，不包括灌木或小树丛。常用于植树、保护森林等话题。

Examples

The park workers planted new saplings every spring.

公园工人每年春天都会种下新的**幼树**。

The saplings need plenty of water to grow.

这些**幼树**需要大量的水才能生长。

Many saplings were damaged in the storm.

许多**幼树**在暴风雨中受损了。

We spent the afternoon planting saplings around the community center.

我们整个下午都在社区中心周围种植**幼树**。

If you take care of those saplings now, they'll grow into big, strong trees.

如果你现在照顾这些**幼树**，它们以后会长成高大结实的树。

Deer sometimes eat the leaves off young saplings in the forest.

鹿有时会吃掉森林里**幼树**的新叶。