And even though she was broke, she lied and told him I had scads of it... I couldn't take his money, you know.

尽管她已破产，她还是说了谎，告诉他我有很多钱… … 我不能拿他的钱，你知道的。”

So, over time, scads of scale trees collapsed and piled up, without decomposing, keeping much of the CO2 that they had taken up, locked away in their tissues.

因此，随着时间的推移，大量的鳞片树倒塌并堆积起来，没有分解，将它们吸收的大部分二氧化碳锁在它们的组织中。