Maize quickly became one of the cheapest animal feeds worldwide.

玉蜀黍成全世界 最便宜的动物饲料。

Many survive by working in nearby maize gardens or turning maize husks into flour for cooking porridge.

许多人依靠附近的玉米园工作把玉蜀黍弄成面粉煮粥过活。

Deandre Jordan look like that uncle at a cookout that stick his fork in ya plate.

德安德鲁·乔丹长得像是那种野餐时会把叉子伸到你盘子里的怪蜀黍。

Or as a big ear of corn in doggie make-up.

是一根玉蜀黍化妆成一只狗。

Green candy and green pop corn were offered for sale, as well as green shoes, green hats, and green clothes of all sorts.

出售绿的糖果，绿的爆玉蜀黍，还有各种各样的绿鞋子、绿帽子和绿衣衫。

The classic Mayans and their successors, including the Aztecs, consumed chocolate, usually as a drink, with water and perhaps chilli, or thickened with maize.

传统的玛雅人以及他们的后人，包括阿芝特克人，都会以巧克力作为饮料，加入水辣椒，甚至是加玉蜀黍使稠。

Sounds great! I'm in! Hold on. Just because the nice man is offering you candy, doesn't mean you should jump into his windowless van.

听起来赞啊 我去 慢着 就因为一位怪蜀黍给你们糖吃 并不意味着你就应该跳进人贩子的破车里。

Things started to grow and come up. For the first time, green corn plants began to show. They pushed through the soil and could now be seen above the ground.

万物开始孕育生长。第一次，绿色的玉蜀黍开始显现。它们穿过土壤，现已经长到地面以上了。

And that's why it shouldn't come as a surprise that one of the most important grains in human history originally arose within this ideal environment — maize, otherwise known as corn.

因此，人类历史上最重要的谷物之一——玉米（又称玉蜀黍）最初是这种理想的环境中诞生的，就一点也不足为奇了。

We know early Americans first started farming and breeding teosinte about 9000 years ago, but that's not that long ago considering how different today's butter-drenched sugar missiles are from their ancestor.

我们知道早期的美国人大约9000开始种植、培育蜀黍，但想到今天涂满黄油的玉米，它们之间如此迥异，又觉得用这么长时间是合理的。

Father. We have much to be thankful for. Less than a year ago we had nothing to eat except our small supply of Indian corn, and were afraid that even that would soon be gone.

我们要感谢的事有多。不到一，除了少量的玉蜀黍外，我们什么也吃不到，而且我们担心连玉蜀黍都会吃完。

Over the last millennia, our ancestors have pursued this in basic ways, for instance, by improving milk production from cows and making a wild grass called teosinte into edible corn.

过去的几千里， 我们的祖先一直以基本的方式追求这一点，例如，通过提高奶牛的产奶量， 以及将一种叫做类蜀黍的野草制成可食用的玉米。

There was once a time when every gym had an army of energy-bar-munching zombies, convinced that they would get six-pack abs, tighter buns, and sweeter pecs if they just supplemented their routine with a PowerBar.

曾经有段时间，每个健身房都有一群咀嚼能量棒的“怪蜀黍”，坚信自己能拥有六块腹肌，紧实的臀部和迷人的胸肌，只要每日补充能量棒就好。

If turning aurochs into cattle, wolves into dogs or teosinte into maize sounds like a sideshow compared with transforming the composition of the atmosphere, looting the oceans or destroying the rainforests, consider a few facts.

如果说，与改大气成分、掠夺海洋破坏雨林相比，把古代野牛成家牛、把狼成狗者把墨西哥类蜀黍成玉米这种事听起来无关紧要，请仔细思考几个事实。

Professor：But have they really played any kind of important role in European history? Well, as a matter of fact, yes. I was just coming to that. Let’s start with North American corn or maize, as it’s often called.

教授：但是他们真的欧洲历史上扮演过什么重要的角色吗？嗯，事实上，是的。我正要谈到这一点。让我们从通常所说的北美玉米玉蜀黍开始。