I'm going to ask you to imagine what a Redwood really is as a living organism. And, Chris, if I could have you up here?
我想做一个小小的想象实验让你们去想象一下，一棵红杉作为一个生命体究竟是什么东西克里斯，你能站到舞台上来么？And with a friend of his, he took it upon himself to free-climb a Redwood without ropes or any equipment to see what was up there.
之后他与他的一个朋友毅然试着徒手攀爬一棵红杉而没有用任何绳子或装备，想看一下在上面究竟有什么。They're finding out that Redwoods can move moisture out of the air and down into their trunks, possibly all the way into their root systems.
他们发现红杉可以吸收空气中的水分至它们的树干里，很有可能一路送到它们的根部系统。If you don't, this will be like trying to cut down a redwood tree with a herring (your skills being the herring).
如果您不知道怎样做，那么这就像是企图用鲱鱼来砍倒红杉树（而您的技能就是那条鲱鱼）。To the "soft-landing" crowd, who argue that this is just a cycle like others we've seen, Sequoia responds "It's different this time. "
对于那些持有“软着陆”看法的乐观人群，他们争辩说，这只不过是我们以往所见的周期性的循环，红杉回应：这一次是不同的。Fuel up in Sausalito, and then stop at Muir Woods National Monument to walk among thousands of giant, old-growth redwoods.
在索萨利托加满油后，途中可在穆尔森林国家纪念碑歇歇脚，看看这里在成千上万古老的大红杉。The base of General Sherman, a true giant among the sequoias in the heart of the Sequoia National Park.
谢尔曼将军树（GeneralSherman）的根部，位于红杉国家公园中心地带，屹立在群杉之中。If a portion of a Redwood is rotting, the Redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart.
如果红杉有一部分在腐烂，红杉就会将这些根收回体内在它溃坏的同时吸收其营养。One of the gifts that we left behind in Hangchow was a planted sapling of the American redwood tree.
我们离开中国后，在杭州留下了一个礼物，它是一棵美国红杉树苗。