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。

Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities that would make her truly desirable as a wife.

爱伦用细声细气地训诫，嬷嬷则用滔滔不绝的唠叨，都在尽力将那些作为淑女贤妻不可少的品质栽培到她身上去。

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

几乎岛上每平方米都耕种栽培着像芋头和面包果之类的庄稼。

He's kind of grooming me to take over.

他打算栽培我日后接手公司。

Jobs loved the foliage work done on Stanford's campus, and he tracked down one of the arborists responsible, Dave Muffly, who oversaw the planting of 9,000 indigenous trees at Apple Park.

乔布喜欢校园的植树，他找到一位当时的树木栽培师Dave Muffly，负责控管苹果公司园区里9，000棵的原产树木。

The provocation was that instead of growing a plant, like cotton, in a field over several months, we could use microbes to grow a similar cellulose material in a lab in a few days.

其发想在于，并不是花费几个月时间在地里栽培作，比如棉花；而是只用几天时间，在实验室里用微生培养出类似的纤维材料。

It seems people began propagating it themselves, separating and cultivating new corm growths.

于是人们开始人工繁育，通过分株和栽培新的球茎来扩大规模。

But, even if we were eating fruit, the fruit we would have gotten back then wouldn't have been much at all like the modern-day fruit that through domestication and cultivation has come to be much bigger and much sweeter.

就算那时的人类靠水果过，那时的水果肯定不如现在的水果那样大那样甜，因为现在的水果经历了很长时间的筛选与栽培。

It has been cultivated and selected for qualities.

它已被栽培种植，并挑选出了品质优良的品种。

Osama was groomed to enter the family business.

家人一直栽培奥萨马进入家族企业。

The US report describes the level of opium poppy cultivation last year as unprecedented.

美国这份报告描述去年的罂粟栽培水平是前所未有的。

Riparian buffers maintain wild or cultivated plant life along rivers or streams.

河岸缓冲带维持着河流或溪流沿岸的野生或栽培植群落。

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

建莲多在山间的水田栽培。

" Any idea how much work Anchise puts into each one of these? "

“你知道每个桃子都是安喀花了多少工夫栽培的吗？”

If the leaders of the community are led to see that a wild place for wild life is just as necessary as a cultivated park for cultivated things, then the town might make of such waste land a public sanctuary.

如果社区领导人认识到野外栖息地对于野生动就如同栽培事需要一个栽培花园一样重要时，那么城镇就有可能将荒地利用成公共保护区。

Less rational reasons are at play, too. Snoop Dogg, a rapper famous for smoking copious amounts of weed, insisted on charging $420, a number associated with pot culture.

不那么理性的原因也在起作用。以吸大量大麻而闻名的说唱歌手史努比·道格坚持要420美元，这一数字与大麻栽培有关。

Then think of the plums, the lemon-peel, the spices, the sugar;-all these come from distant countries; and to get them hither, ships, ship-builders, sail-makers, sailors, growers, merchants, and grocers, have been employed.

接下来想想梅子，柠檬皮、香料、还有糖--所有材料都来自遥远的国度，要来到这边，要有船、建船商、建帆商、水手、栽培者、商人、杂货店店主人，都要雇佣。”

In fact, the scientists are actively using the bank to breed genes for drought resistance into cultivated tomatoes — protecting food sources not only for desert rodents but for us.

事实上，科学家们正在积极地利用这个基因库为栽培的西红柿培育抗旱基因——不仅保护了沙漠啮齿动的食来源，也保护了我们的食来源。

I could tell you that I'm an expert in viticulture, the growing and harvesting of grapes, and I personally vouch for how awesome they are.

我可以告诉你，我是葡萄栽培、葡萄种植和收获方面的专家，我个人保证这葡萄有多么好。

In the country there was draining and hedging, planting and clearing, until the next summer saw the whole country golden with the wheat crop.

乡村中，开沟浚壑、造篱立界、栽培垦殖，一片生产气象；到了第二年的夏天，整个乡村便涌现出万顷麦浪，一片金黄。