Almost every square metre of the island is cultivated to grow staple crops like taro or breadfruit.

上每平方米都耕种栽培着像芋头面包果之类的庄稼。

For an old-school slice of Island life, hang out at Hanapepe, whose swinging bridge has been swaying under the footsteps of local taro farmers for over a century.

如果想体验传统屿生活，不妨前往哈纳佩佩，这里的吊桥已有逾百年的历史，支撑着当地芋农往返的日常生活。

He went to meet fresh and learned how to cook taro jelly and ube.

他去见了新人，学习如何制作芋圆紫薯。

" If someone wants to build a mega taro that's 50 floors, we make an agreement like maybe 20 of them have to be low-income housing" .

" 如果有人想建造50层的摩天大楼，我们会与其达成协议，其中20层必须是保障性住房。"

And we went into the poisonous giant tubers, like the yam and the taro, which also had to be leeched, ground up and cooked before we could eat them.

我们也寻找到了那些带有毒性的、个头颇大的块茎，像山药、芋头，这些在食用之前经过榨取、提炼烹饪。

It's believed that eating taro on this day will bring good luck and wealth.

人们相信在这一天吃芋头会带来好运财富。

The first I clicked on, the Danag, was a Filipino vampire supposedly responsible for planting taro on the islands long ago.

我首先点开了“丹拿”，这是一种菲律宾的吸血鬼，很多年以前是负责在上种植芋头的。

For example, in the local southern Chinese dialect, taro sounds similar to 'the coming of good fortune'.

例如，在中国南方方言中，芋头的发音类似于“好运的到来”。

From Hanalei Valley Lookout, gaze down at one of the lushest valleys on the planet, where the heart-shaped leaves of taro rise from a patchwork of flooded fields.

登上哈纳莱伊山谷了望台，俯瞰世上最郁葱的峡谷，一瞥心形芋头叶从一块块水田当中探出头来。

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，出现的是大；在中国，米大米；在巴布亚新内亚是芋头；在非洲是高粱。

The root vegetables in here are taro, batata, and parsnip.

这里的根茎类蔬菜是芋头、红薯防风草。

Specifically, I had a taro tea with tapioca pearls in it.

具体来说，我喝了一杯芋头茶，里面有木薯珍珠。

The fermented food that we used to take is taro roots.

我们过去常吃的发酵食品是芋头。

What does he know about growing taro in this kind of soil?

他对在这种土壤中种植芋头了解多少呢？

A taro or maybe some beet… just a little bit… I don't know, but we would… again, the hot cross bun, it could… and we… of course we'd do one for those who practice Good Friday.

一个芋头或者可能是甜菜… … 一点点而已… … 我不确定，但是我们会… … 当然，还是会做热十字面包， 它可以… … 而且我们… … 当然会为那些庆祝 Good Friday（受难节）的人准备一款。

Although the Polynesians had brought some of their own plants, like the coconut and the paper mulberry tree, the Hawaiian diet was based on the taro plant, yams, and marine animals.

虽然波利尼西亚人带来了一些他们自己的植物，如椰子纸桑树，但夏威夷人的饮食以芋头植物、山药海洋动物为主。

In addition, if the supply of these goods become critically low, farmers may be required to switch to alternative crops, such as taro, with government oversight on food distribution.

此外， 若这些商品的供应严重不足，农民可能被要求转种替代作物，如芋头， 同时政府将监督食品分配。

And a soldier I met for the first time gave me half a taro root he'd dug up.

我第一次遇见的一位士兵给了我他挖到的半个芋头。

Within 1,600 years that resulting package of crops (including bananas, taro, and yams) and domestic animals (chickens, pigs, and dogs) had spread more than 5,000 miles eastward into the tropical Pacific to reach the islands of Polynesia.

在 1,600 年内，由此产生的农作物（包括香蕉、芋头山药）家畜（鸡、猪狗）向东传播了 5,000 多英里，进入热带太平洋，到达波利尼西亚群。

They were also pioneers who carried with them everything they would need to build new lives—their livestock, taro seedlings and stone tools.

他们也是开拓者，随身携带了建立新生活所需的一切——牲畜、芋头幼苗石器。