thorn hedge

He heard an old man telling about the thorn hedge. It was said that there was a castle behind it, in which a beautiful princess named Little Brier-Rose had been asleep for a hundred years, and with her the king and the queen and all the royal attendants were sleeping.

一位老大爷向他讲起了蒺藜树丛的故事，说树篱之内有一座漂亮的王宫，王宫里有一位仙女般的公主，她的名字叫玫瑰公主，她和整座王宫及里面的人都在沉睡。

Finally, the ship arrived in Martinique and the coffee tree was replanted, where it was surrounded by a thorn hedge and watched over by slaves.

最终，船到达马提尼克岛，咖啡树被种在了这里，树的周围竖起了带刺的篱笆，由奴隶看守。

He also knew from his grandfather that many princes had come and tried to penetrate the thorn hedge, but they had become stuck in it and died a sorrowful death.

听了这些，这位王子说：「所有这些都吓不倒我，我要看玫瑰公主去！」老人劝他不要去试，可他却坚持要去。

When a king's son came near to the thorn hedge, it was nothing but large and beautiful flowers.

当一位王子走近了荆棘的时候，却发现荆棘没有了，而是又大又美丽的花儿。

The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

他们最好的，不过是蒺藜。最正直的，不过是荆棘篱笆。