There is nothing unusual about red cedars, for instance, living for three or five hundred years in normal circumstances. But after the effort of being transplanted, they are, as one expert puts it, "just about done for!"
本來長老級「樹」物，如茄冬樹活個三、五百年沒有問題，被這麼勞動後，套句植物專家說的，「這下大概差不多了！」