Sometimes I looked out of the window at the grey November afternoon, and saw the rain pouring down on the leafless garden.

时而望望窗外。11月的午后天气阴沉，大雨倾泻在秃枝枯叶的花园里。

Williams, a retiree who's been a GMMES member for the past 19 years, strolled by leafless trees, then saw the mangled doors of the shipping containers.

威廉斯已退休，他19年来该协会的成员。他在树叶已落光的大树旁漫步，随后看箱破损的大门。

But other species, like maples and birches and larches, combine a less extreme level of sugar in their leaves with the practice of going leafless during the winter to avoid foliar frostbite.

但其他物种，例如枫树，桦树和落叶松，则将叶子中糖分的含量降低了极低的水平，并在冬季采取了不生叶的做法，以避免叶面冻伤。