Do you know why it is called Indian corn?

你知道印第安玉米这个称呼是怎么来的吗？

They are beautifully placed, and remind one of a tiny ear of Indian corn.

它们摆放很漂亮，让人想起印第安玉米的穗。

Father. We have much to be thankful for. Less than a year ago we had nothing to eat except our small supply of Indian corn, and were afraid that even that would soon be gone.

我们要感谢的事有很多。不到一年前，除了少量的玉蜀黍外，我们什么也吃不到，而且我们担心连玉蜀黍都会很快吃完。

Thus it will be seen how varied are the uses of Indian corn.

由此可见，印第安玉米全身都是宝。

I am sure you have also seen peas, beans, Indian corn, wheat, and many other seeds.

大家也一定见过豌豆、大豆、玉米、麦的种子, 还见过好多好多别的种子。

Indian corn is now the leading crop in the United States.

印第安玉米是目前最主要的农作物。

Toward the south, however, where the Sequoia becomes more exuberant and numerous, the rival trees become less so; and where they mix with Sequoias, they mostly grow up beneath them, like slender grasses among stalks of Indian corn.

然而，向南，红杉加茂盛和数量多，竞争对手的树木不那么多了；在它们与红杉混合的地方，它们大多生长在红杉的下面，就像印度玉米茎中的细长草。

Such are potatoes and maize, or what is called Indian corn, the two most important improvements which the agriculture of Europe, perhaps, which Europe itself, has received from the great extension of its commerce and navigation.

这就是马铃薯和玉米，或所谓的印度玉米，欧洲农业的两种最重要的改进，也许是欧洲本身从其商业和航海的巨大扩展中获的。

Toward the south where the sequoia becomes most exuberant and numerous, the rival trees become less so; and where they mix with sequoias they grow up beneath them like slender grasses among stalks of Indian corn.

向南，红杉最旺盛，数量最多，而竞争对手的树木则减少了；在它们与红杉混杂在一起的地方，它们在树下生长，就像印度玉米茎中的细草。

Members of some of the friendly tribes nearby had taught John Smith how to plant and grow maize, also known as Indian corn, or simply corn today in North America.

附近一些友好部落的成员教会了约翰·史密斯如何种植和培育玉米，这种作物也被称为印第安玉米， 今天在北洲通常简称为玉米。

As for its name, since it was a dominant local grain, maize, which comes from the Arawakan word mahiz, M-A-H-I-Z, was called Indian corn by the colonists.

至于它的名称，由于玉米（源自阿拉瓦克语的“mahiz”，即M-A-H-I-Z）是当地的主要粮食作物， 殖民者们便将其称为“印第安玉米” 。

They make fine resiny, light-giving camp-fires, next to ears of Indian corn the most beautiful fuel I've ever seen.

他们用树脂制成精的、能发光的篝火， 仅次于印度玉米穗， 是我见过的最漂亮的燃料。

In several provinces of France, the feeding of poultry is considered as a very important article in rural economy, and sufficiently profitable to encourage the farmer to raise a considerable quantity of Indian corn and buckwheat for this purpose.

在法的几个省份，家禽饲养被认为是农村经济中非常重要的一项，其利润足以鼓励农民为此目的种植大量的印度玉米和荞麦。

Such a negro, over and above this quantity of tobacco, can manage, they reckon, four acres of Indian corn.

除了这种数量的烟草外， 还可以管理四英亩的印第安玉米。

The many uses of Indian corn and its products are worthy of note.