The crowns of these trees form a world very different from the world below.

这些树木的树冠构成了与下面大不相同的世界。

But soon the Nautilus hugged the eastern shore where these tree forms appeared in all their glory.

但是，海底这些丛生的枝状动物表现得最美丽的地方；还是在诺第留斯号就要驶到的东部的海岸附近。

And then we came to the end of the road; the trees formed green walls on three sides of the Jeep.

然后，我们到达了路的尽头。树木筑成了绿色的藩篱，围绕在越野车的三侧。

Only, contrary to plants on shore, these tree forms become attached to rocks on the seafloor by heading from top to bottom.

不过，跟陆地上的植物正相反，固定在海底岩石上的珊瑚树的枝权，全是从上到下发展的。

At this locality we stood in the center of a huge clearing surrounded by the tall tree forms of this underwater forest.

我们站的是一块宽大空地的中心地方，围绕四周的是海底森林的高大突出的枝权。

It rushes aloft thirty or forty feet above the top of the tree, forming a grand spectacle, especially at night.

它冲上树顶三十或四十英尺的高空， 形成壮观的景象， 尤其是在晚上。

There is a mile of bay trees, forming what we call a bay-head, just before the Creek is reached from the village.

有一英里长的月桂树， 形成我们所说的湾头， 就在从村庄到达小溪之前。

The spikelets from the trees formed a soft carpet over the route, and occasionally a brake of brambles barred the interspaces of the trunks.

树上的小穗在路上形成了柔软的地毯， 偶尔会有一丛荆棘挡在树干之间。

But as the bushes shrank, the tree forms magnified. Actual petrified thickets and long alcoves from some fantastic school of architecture kept opening up before our steps.

不久，珊瑚树丛就紧密连攀起来，树枝分布增长起来。好像是真正的石质丛林和奇矮建筑的长槽在我们脚步面前摆开了。

Out of these seedling-thickets perhaps two or three may become trees, forming those close groups called " three graces, " " loving couples, " etc.

也许有两三棵会长成树木， 形成被称为“三恩” 、“恩爱夫妻” 等的紧密群体。

In youth, say up to the age of seventy or eighty years, no other tree forms so strictly tapered a cone from top to bottom.

在青年时代，比如说七八十岁之前，没有其他树木从上到下严格地呈圆锥形。

The cones are green while growing, and are usually found over all the tree, forming quite a marked feature as seen against the bluish-gray foliage.

球果在生长时是绿色的，通常在整棵树上都能找到，在蓝灰色的树叶映衬下形成了相当明显的特征。

No wind blew inside the protecting belt of evergreens, wasting its force upon the higher and stronger trees forming the outer margin of the grove.

常青树的保护带内没有风吹过，没有风吹过形成树林外缘的更高更强壮的树木。