But what happens when your potato sprouts little green roots?

但是当你的土豆长出小绿根时会发生什么？

He pitied her, but not as he pitied the peasant Menshov with his hands and face white as potato sprouts, and innocently languishing in an ill-smelling prison.

他可怜她，但并不像他可怜手和脸都白得像土豆芽， 天真无邪地在臭气熏天的监狱里受苦的农民门绍夫那样。