Green and yellow entered language as the need to distinguish between ripe and unripe foods.

绿色和黄色进入语言，是因为需要区分成熟和成熟的食物。

Sour might signal unripe or spoiled foods that could make us sick.

酸味可能表示食物成熟或变质，可能会让我们生病。

An unripe truffle, unlike a tomato, which you could cut from the vine and ripen on your windowsill, once the truffle is out of the ground, the clock is ticking.

成熟的松露，不像西红柿，你可以从藤上摘下来，放在窗台上让它成熟，松露旦离开地面，时间就变得非常紧迫。

The time is unripe, the climate is unsuitable.

时机不成熟，大环境不合适。

One came out of a clamshell supermarket box, meaning it was probably harvested when it was still unripe, immediately placed in a forced-air cooling unit, loaded onto a refrigerated truck and driven hundreds of miles.

其中颗是从超市的翻盖式包装盒里取出来的，这意味着它可能在还没成熟的时候就被摘下来，然后被立即放进空气强冷却装置中，再装上辆冷藏车，开几百英里。

Their thick shell, often removed before sale, makes it difficult to tell the ripe nuts from the unripe ones, making the harvesting process more work-intensive and costly.

它们厚重的外壳通常在上市前就被移除，因为厚壳让人难以分辨果实是否成熟，这也导致采收的过程时间更紧迫、成本更高。

They're eager for more independence and to be taken more seriously; in their head, they're ready for both, though their prefrontal cortex is basically a bunch of unripe bananas.

他们渴望更多的自由，渴望被更认真地对待; 他们的大脑对这两种情况都做备，尽管他们的前额皮质基本上还是捆成熟的香蕉。

If it's unripe, there's no point in having it.

如果还没有成熟，就不用挖出来。

Unripe guava, which often shows up on Thai tables, has a tannic, mouth-drying quality that balances fiery foods perfectly.

生的番石榴经常出现在泰国的餐桌上，它那单宁般的让人嘴巴发干的口感，完美地平衡食物的辛辣。

I would say these are very obviously green and unripe plantain and therefore very firm and quite starchy.

我想说这些很明显是绿色和成熟的大蕉，因此非常坚硬，淀粉含量很高。

While all parts of the Jerusalem cherry are poisonous, the plant's unripe berries can be especially dangerous.

虽然珊瑚樱的所有部分都有毒，但该植物成熟的浆果可能特别危险。

And to soften an unripe peach or avocado, we put it in a paper bag with a ripe banana.

为软化成熟的桃子或牛油果，我们将其与成熟的香蕉起放入纸袋中。

The body might be quite womanly, but the face reminded her of an unripe apple.

身体可能很有女人味，但那张脸让她想起成熟的苹果。

I prefer eating them when you have a slightly crunchy, unripe guava.

我喜欢在番石榴稍微有点脆、不太熟的时候吃它们。

A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

青涩的、成熟的时光，情绪浅薄、思想病态的时期。

With nothing but unripe figs to sustain them, Will and Jeff must do something.

除熟的无花果别无他物可维持生计，威尔和杰夫必须采取行动。

Unripe bananas are full of starch, which turns into sugar as they ripen.

成熟的香蕉富含淀粉，随着成熟会转化为糖。

That sort of tanginess that you can get only from the like unripe mango.

那种只有从成熟的芒果中才能得到的酸味。

She ran to find Totty, and soon reappeared with recovered colour, leading Totty, who was making a sour face because she had been obliged to throw away an unripe apple that she had set her small teeth in.

她跑去找托蒂，很快脸色就恢复，领着托蒂回来，托蒂正愁眉苦脸，因为她不得不扔掉被她的小牙齿咬住的熟苹果。

The odd time they've been known to mix things up with flowers, seeds,   or even insects, but their go-to is mostly unripe fruit from January to May,   and mostly leaves from June to December.

奇怪的是，它们有时会与花朵、种子甚至昆虫混合在起，但从月到五月，它们的首选主要是成熟的水果，而从六月到十二月，它们主要是叶子。