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果之类庄稼。

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

人们相信在这天吃芋头会带来好运财富。

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。

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，芋头发音类似于“好运到来”。

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”，这是种菲律宾吸血鬼，很多年以前是负责在岛上种植芋头。

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

这里根茎类蔬菜是芋头、红薯防风。

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

具体来说，我喝了杯芋头茶，里有木薯珍珠。

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

我们过去常吃发酵食品是芋头。

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？

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

我第次遇见位士兵给了我他挖到半个芋头。

But now the taro was harvested.

但现在芋头已经收割完毕。

On a planet the size of Baron 4 with 74 men, you should be producing a dozen times the taro you stated.

在个像巴伦4号那样大小星球上， 拥有74名成员，你们应该能生产出所宣称芋头产量十二倍。

One ship every three years could supply it, and even then the taro crates wouldn't half fill up the storage holds.

每三年才有艘船来补给，即便如此， 那些芋头箱子连储藏半都填不满。

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切——牲畜、芋头幼苗石器。

" 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。"

There were other colonies far closer to home that sent back more taro in one year than Baron Four could grow in ten.

还有其他殖民地，距离家乡近得多，它们年内运回芋头数量，就超过了四号男爵星十年所能种植总量。

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，俯瞰世上最郁葱峡谷，瞥心形芋头叶从块块水田当中探出头来。

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.

如果想体验传统岛屿生活，不妨前往哈纳佩佩，这里吊桥已有逾百年历史，支撑着当地芋农往返日常生活。

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，出现是小麦大麦；在中国，小米大米；在巴布亚新几内亚是芋头；在非洲是高粱。

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、个头颇大块茎，像山药、芋头，这些在食用之前得经过榨取、提炼烹饪。