People who study plants are called botanists.

研究物的人被叫作物家。

Botany is the scientific study of plants.

物研究物的科。

So botany is the study of plant life, and zoology is the study of animal life.

botany研究物的科，zoology研究动物的科。

But we're still figuring out whether plants react to the vibrations of sounds.

我们仍在研究物否会对声音的振动做出反应。

Well, botanists have a number of tools at their disposal to help them study plant evolution.

物家有很多工具可以帮助他们研究物的进化。

That's Dr. Martha Weiss, a biologist and professor at Georgetown University, who studies plant-insect interactions.

乔敦大的生物家和教授玛莎·魏斯博士，她研究物与昆虫的相互作用。

But the idea of doing botany in a public house was utterly disgraceful and horrifying to the elite classes.

在公共场所研究物的想法对于精英阶层来说完全可耻和恐怖的。

How do you spend forty-two years on one species of plant? I asked.

“怎么研究一种物要花42年？”我问。

The plants we study don't have to be alive to give us clues, either.

我们研究的物也不一定活的才能给我们线索。

Those whose specialty is plants define a berry as a simple, fleshy fruit with a thin wall and many seeds.

专门研究物的人将浆果定义为皮薄多籽而果肉丰富的单一果类。

As Luther Burbank grew older, he began to work very carefully with all kinds of plants.

路德·伯班克长大以后，他开始潜心研究各种物。

It's the science of plants' structure and their function, the way their parts work and how their genetic traits pass on.

这一门研究物结构和功能的科，研究物各部分的工作方式，以及它们的基因特征如何传递的。

Gert Kema is a plant scientist who studies bananas.

格特·凯玛一位研究香蕉的物科家。

People have been studying plants and even coffee for several decades now.

几十年来，人们一直在研究物甚至咖啡。

Recent studies have found positive effects.

最近的研究发现了物起到的积极作用。

Scientists says a general lack of interest in plants creates problems.

缺乏对物的研究兴趣主要原因。

The study is in the journal Trends in Plant Science.

这项研究发表在《物科趋势》期刊上。

The research is in the journal Trends in Plant Science.

这项研究发表在《物科趋势》期刊上。

Some biologists study plants and other biologists study animals.

一些生物家研究物，另一些生物家研究动物。

And plant ecology, or the study of relationships among plants, organisms, and their environments, is a huge field.

物生态——或者说研究物、生物及其环境之间的关系——一个巨大的领域。