China is the earliest country to plant rice paddies.

中国是全世界水稻栽培历史最早的国家。

They go to the rice paddies.

去到稻田里。

Paddy, please. It's called the Canadian Express...

拜托 帕蒂 那叫加拿大特快。

The resulting specimens will then be sorted and the best (ie, those that have flourished in the saline soils of Miyagi's paddies) selected for crossbreeding, in order to concentrate desirable mutations into reproducible lines of plants.

为了使种子变异充分，并且适于种植生产，在宫城县盐地生长得最好的部分将再进行杂交培育。

An experimental psychology professor who led the research said that humans are able to distinguish between languages, even ones they don't know, from the intonation and pronunciation, and it seems that paddy birds have the same ability.

领导这次实验的是一位实验心授，他说到，人类能够从语调和发音来辨别不同的语言，即使是一些自己没有掌握的语言也是如此。 现在看来这些以谷类为食的小鸟也具备这种能力。

One thing which is strange is the total chromium contained in the paddy plants.

怪的是，水稻植物中总的铬含量。

Not far from the river banks, over a paddy field, lies Feng Wenshun's makeshift workshop.

不远处的河岸边，穿过一片稻田，伫立着俸文顺的临时作坊。

Paddy Bear did not know just what he liked to do best.

帕迪熊不知道他最喜欢做什么。

More than 90 percent of rice is grown in flooded paddies, which use a lot of water and release 11 percent of annual methane emissions, which accounts for one to two percent of total annual greenhouse gas emissions globally.

90% 以上的水稻是在水田里种植的，这需要用到大量的水，并释放出每年 11% 的甲烷排放量，约占全球每年温室气体排放总量的 1-2%。

After 30 days, we flood the paddy field.

30 天后，我们在稻田里灌水。

One of the most visited and dreamed-of destinations on the modern traveler bucket list, Bali is a kaleidoscope of beautiful beaches, volcanic hills, lush rice paddies, and thousands upon thousands of Balinese temples.

在现代旅行者的遗愿清单上，巴厘岛是最受欢迎和最想去的目的地之一，巴厘岛是一个由美丽的海滩、火山山丘、郁郁葱葱的稻田和成千上万的巴厘岛寺庙的万花筒。

The Lotuses of Jianning are mostly cultivated in paddy fields in the mountains.

建莲多在山间的水田栽培。

Big black cars, like paddy wagons, squealed to a halt all around him, blocking traffic.

伴随刹车的尖啸声，如同囚车一般的几辆大型黑色车辆停在他的四周，挡住了来往交通。

To grow rice, farmers go through cycles of flooding their fields, or paddies, which then dry out and need to be flooded again.

为了种植水稻，农民需要反复灌溉田地，然后水田干涸，需要再次灌溉。

And where water is running low, as it is in so many parts of the world, farmers are letting their fields dry out on purpose, a strategy that also reduces methane, a potent greenhouse gas that rises from paddy fields.

在水资源不足的地方（世界上许多地方都是这样），农民们故意让他们的田地干涸，这种策略也减少了甲烷，甲烷是一种从稻田中产生的温室效应很强的气体。

One British birder laments the recent draining of supposedly protected paddies by the Wenyu, a river in Beijing that had been a place of rest for about 200 migratory species.

北京的温榆河最近排干了水田，这里曾是大约200种迁徙物种的栖息之地，对此一位英国观鸟者表示惋惜。

Researchers found out some of the studied bones belonged to locally bred geese, whose diet may have included paddy rice in the village — different from migratory geese — suggesting signs of early domestication.

研究人员发现，一些被研究的骨头属于当地饲养的鹅，它们的饮食可能包括村子里的稻谷——不同于迁徙的鹅——这表明早期驯化的迹象。

Late winter in southern Yunnan, it's a busy time for local farmers, as they prepare the age-old paddy fields ready for the coming spring.

对云南南部的当地农民而言，冬末是个繁忙的季节，因为他们要为即将来临的春天整顿这片古老的稻田。

Inefficiencies mean large amounts of unmilled rice -- known as paddy -- go to neighboring Thailand and Vietnam where they fetch a higher price.

效率不高意味着大量稻谷未经脱壳，这样的稻米就进入邻国泰国和越南来卖个高价钱。

Let's finish this week strong with a little luck from the Irish on our side as we head into St. Paddy's Day weekend.

在圣帕迪节周末来临之际，让我们带着爱尔兰人的好运，为本周画上圆满的句号。