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庄稼。

It's got the leaf of kalo in there too.

里面还有芋头叶。

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，一芋头叶从一块块水田当中探头来。

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、提炼和烹饪。

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

人们相信在这一天吃芋头会带来好运和财富。

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”，这是一种菲律宾吸血鬼，很多年以前是负责在岛上种植芋头。

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”。

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，是小麦和大麦；在中国，小米和大米；在巴布亚新几内亚是芋头；在非洲是高粱。

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

这里根茎类蔬菜是芋头、红薯和防风草。

And I also like the yam sauce and snail.

我也喜欢芋头酱和蜗牛。

I like mochi and I like ubi or ube.

我喜欢麻糬，也喜欢芋头。

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

具体来说，我喝了一杯芋头茶，里面有木薯珍珠。

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？

Although the Polynesians had brought some of their own plants, like the coconut and the paper mulberry tree, the Hawaiian diet was based on the taro plant, yams, and marine animals.

虽然波利尼西亚人带来了一些他们自己植物，如椰子和纸桑树，但夏威夷人饮食以芋头植物、山药和海洋动物为主。

In addition, if the supply of these goods become critically low, farmers may be required to switch to alternative crops, such as taro, with government oversight on food distribution.

此外， 若这些商品供应严重不足，农民可能被要求转种替代作物，如芋头， 同时政府将监督食品分配。

Terrified, the people abandoned their food, wild honey, large yams, freshly speared kangaroos, and fish, leaving it for him to consume.

吓得人们放弃了他们食物、野蜂蜜、大芋头、刚捕获袋鼠和鱼，留给他食用。

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

我第一次遇见一位士兵给了我他挖到半个芋头。

Within 1,600 years that resulting package of crops (including bananas, taro, and yams) and domestic animals (chickens, pigs, and dogs) had spread more than 5,000 miles eastward into the tropical Pacific to reach the islands of Polynesia.

在 1,600 年内，由此产生农作物（包括香蕉、芋头和山药）和家畜（鸡、猪和狗）向东传播了 5,000 多英里，进入热带太平洋，到达波利尼西亚群岛。

It has the texture of regular sweet potato pie but hits you with that signature Ube flavor.

它具有普通紫薯派口感，但带有独特芋头风味。