Not bad for a guy whose last bowel movement sounded like rain on a roof.

上次出恭时，声响犹如雨打芭蕉的这位居然还有体力讽刺，不赖嘛。

Its avenue of cherry trees along the main path is famous across Japan, even earning recognition in a haiku by the renowned poet Matsuo Basho.

其主路两旁栽种的樱花树在日本家喻户晓，甚至赢得了著名诗人松尾芭蕉的俳句。

Feed the Future North is an 88 million dollar, five-year program that will focus on five key crops: maize, beans, rice, plantains and cocoa.

“北部未来粮食保障”是一项涉资8800万美元的五项目，关注五大关键作物：玉米、大豆、稻米、芭蕉可可。

Government officials said they banned products that could be replaced by other materials, such as bamboo spoons, plantain trays, and wooden ice-cream sticks.

政府官员表示，他们禁止可以被其他材料（如竹勺、芭蕉托盘木质冰淇淋棒）取代的产品。

It is made up of boiled plantains that are mash with butter and served with fried eggs, Dominican salami and pickled onions.

将煮熟的芭蕉用黄油捣碎，然后配上煎蛋，多米尼加香肠以及腌洋葱。

Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.

芭蕉树一直长到房子的跟前；巨大的叶子破破，象一位遭了厄运的女王的破衣衫。

Or when you first bite into a fried plantain.

或者当你第一次咬下炸芭蕉的时候。

Gizodo is a plantain and chicken gizzard in red bell pepper sauce.

吉佐多是用红甜椒酱烹制的芭蕉鸡胗。

Over potato chips, over anything else, I will buy plantain chips or tostones.

胜过薯片，胜过其他任何东西，我会买芭蕉片或 tostones。

Next stop, a soup place and a hidden food alley filled with tasty treasures to get our hands on a snail and banana blossom broth.

下一站，我们将前往一家汤品店一条隐秘的美食小巷，那里藏满了美味珍宝，让我们有机会品尝到蜗牛与芭蕉花炖汤。

On this journey, direct encounters with nature, enriched by cultural associations and visits to Shinto shrines, confirm Basho's liberation from selfish attachments.

在这趟旅程中， 与自然的直接邂逅，加之文化联想的丰富与神社的参拜，共同印证了芭蕉摆脱私欲束缚的精神解放。

Plantains! You couldn't just put bananas on the list, huh?

芭蕉！你就不能把香蕉放单子上，哈？

Basho’s poems capture the true soul of old Japan.

【soul】松尾芭蕉的诗歌抓住了古代日本真正的精神。