sapless

The tender shoots and the expanding flowers are nipped and withered, and of a vine that yearned to stretch its tendril round the world there is left but a sapless stump.

柔弱的嫩芽和绽放的花朵已经被掐断，枯萎败落，曾想将自己的卷须伸展到全世界的蔓藤，如今只剩下干瘪的残枝委地。