Around 2,000 years ago, the five cereals were namely rice, broomcorn millet, millet, wheat, and beans.

大约两千年前五谷的排序为稻，黍，粽，麦，菽。

So what if we replace rice with millet?

如果我们用小米来代替会怎么样？

Coarse grains such as corn, sorghum, barley, oats, rye, and millet, mostly go into animal feed which by the way is seen by many as a wasteful and inefficient use of fertile land.

粗粮，如玉米，高粱，大麦，燕麦，黑麦，谷子，大部分用于动物饲，顺便说一下，许多人认为这是对肥沃土地的浪费和低效利用。

Winter-sown crops like barley and millet quickly ripen in the strong sun.

大麦和小米等冬季播种的作物在强烈的阳光下迅速成熟。

On the funnels, archaeologists found grains – probably millet and barley.

在漏斗上，考古学家发现了谷物——能是小米和大麦。

Mastick remembers when there were good harvests of corn, millet and cotton.

马斯蒂克记得玉米、小米和棉花丰收的时候。

And at these sites, millet makes up 98 percent of dietary grain.

而且在这些居住地中，小米在人们的饮食中占98%的比例。

This millet and lamb dish is delicious.

这道小米和羊肉菜很好吃。

Generally, the porridge contains eight ingredients which can include glutinous rice, red beans, millet, Chinese sorghum, peas, dried lotus seeds and some other ingredients, such as dried dates, chestnut meat, walnut meat, almond and peanut, etc.

腊八粥通常由八种材做成，这些材是黏米、红豆、小米、高粱、豌豆、莲子和其他一些材，诸如红枣、栗子、核桃仁、杏仁、花生等谷物。

In the Middle East-as we saw in the last programme-it was wheat and barley; in China millet and rice; in Papua New Guinea taro; and in Africa sorghum.

在中东，我们在上期节目中已经看到的，出现的是小麦和大麦；在中国，小米和大米；在巴布亚新几内亚是芋头；在非洲是高粱。

The technologies and innovative approaches developed through this program aim to help improve resilience in dryland areas, where sorghum and pearl millet are critical to food security.

该项目开发的技术和革新方法意在帮助提高干旱地区的恢复力，这些地区的高粱和珍珠小米对粮食安全来说至关重要。

But hold on. some other scientists discovered probably-domestic cat bones in 2001, in an ancient millet farming village in central China.

不过稍等，另外一些科学家在2001年发现很能是家猫的骨头，在中国中部一个古代的耕种小米的村庄中。

Mastick remembers when there were good harvests of corn, millet and cotton. The wild animals stayed in the forest back then.

马斯蒂克还记得玉米、小米和棉花丰收的场景。那时，野生动物都还呆在森林里。

The old man kept Tsze-lu to pass the night in his house, killed a fowl, prepared millet, and feasted him.

止子路宿，杀鸡为黍而食之。

If the glutinous millet is directly steamed, it doesn't taste good enough.

糜子蒸煮成饭，口感略差。

Then let's do millet, which is used in many parts of the world. How about barley?

那我们就做小米吧，全世界很多地方都在用，大麦怎么样？

A government nutrition program serves fluffy white rice, now no one wants to eat red rice or millets.

一个政府的营养项目提供软乎乎的白米饭，现在没人想吃红米或者小米了。

Wheat, corn, rice, sorghum, millet, barley.

小麦、玉米、大米、高粱、小米、大麦。

Corn has become the staple, while the local sorghum, millets, bulbs and tubers are all gone.

玉米已经成为了主食，而当地的高粱、小米、球茎和块茎全都不见了。

There are two types of glutinous millets, the hard and the soft.

糜子分软硬两种老黄将硬糜子与软糜子。