XB 1 Unit 5 语境记单词

【语境记单词】新人教版 选择性必修一 Unit 5（中英对照）
Known as the “father of hybrid rice”, Yuan Longping had devoted his life to the Chinese farmers. Once, China had a serious shortage of food. To tackle this crisis, alleviate hunger and get rid of poverty, Yuan was convinced that farmers must boost yields in the fields they had. One characteristic of hybrids showed that they could attain a higher yield than conventional crops. Through intense effort, Yuan Longping overcame enormous difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice that enabled farmers to expand their output greatly. Today, it is estimated that about 60 percent of domestic rice consumption in China is comprised of crops generated from Yuan’s hybrid strains. Deep down, Yuan was still very much a farmer at heart. As a man of the soil, he cared little for celebrity or money. Despite his wealth, Yuan Longping didn’t live a life of leisure. His assumption was that he envisioned rice plants as tall as sorghum, with each ear of rice as big as a broom, and each grain of rice as huge as a peanut. His later vision for rice growing in salty land had also become a reality.
【中文意思】
袁隆平，被誉为“杂交水稻之父”，将其一生奉献给了中国农民。中国的粮食曾经严重短缺。为了应对这个危机，缓解饥饿和摆脱贫困，袁隆平确信农民必须在已有土地上提高产量。杂交作物的一个特点表明，它们可以获得比传统作物更高的产量。通过极大的努力，袁隆平克服了巨大的困难，培育出了第一代杂交水稻，这极大地提高了农民的产量。据估算，现在中国国内消费的稻米有大约60%来自袁隆平的杂交水稻品种形成的作物。实际上，袁隆平在内心深处仍然是一位农民。身为土地之子，他不在乎名利。袁隆平虽然很富有，却没有过悠闲的生活。他的设想是，他想象水稻植株像高粱一样高，每支稻穗像扫帚一样大，每粒稻米像花生一样大。他后来提出的在盐碱地种植水稻的愿景也已成为
现实。
Farmers prefer chemical fertilizers to organic ones for an increase of output. But crops grown with chemical fertilizers lack nutrition, essential minerals and nice flavour. Today chemical pesticides have been in widespread use in farming. Pesticides can kill harmful bacteria and insects, but damage the nutritious crops. This, in turn, affects the animals and humans who digest them. Now some pesticides have been prohibited in most countries. As an alternative, some farmers have switched to organic farming, because organic vegetables and grain are welcomed in urban groceries. These farmers also change crops. For instance, they grow corn or wheat in a field one year, and then grow beans there the next. These crops have entirely different roots and use different depths of soil.

【中文意思】
为了提高产量，农民们更喜欢化肥而不是有机肥。但是用化肥种植的作物缺乏营养、必要的矿物质和美味。如今化学农药已在农业中得到了广泛使用。农药可以杀死有害的细菌和昆虫，但也会损害有营养的作物。这转而又影响消化这些作物的人畜。现在大多数国家都已禁止使用一些杀虫剂。作为一种替代方法，一些农民已经转向有机耕作，因为有机蔬菜和谷物在城市的食品杂货店里很受欢迎。这些农民还更换作物。例如，他们一年在一块地里种玉米或小麦，下一年在那里种豆类。这些作物的根完全不同，使用的土壤深度也不同。















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