Their panicles hung full as brooms, and each grain was as big as a peanut.

沉甸甸的稻穗有扫把那么长，谷粒有花生那么大。

The main evidence for their presence consists of impression on pottery, where a cereal grain accidentally became embedded in surface of a pot before it was fired.

它们出现的重要证据来源于陶器上的压痕，谷粒在陶器没有烧制之前碰巧嵌在表面。

Then he hopped down at my feet and ate all the corn he wanted.

于是它飞到稻田里，吃着它所想吃的谷粒。

God was touched, throwing grain down as if it were rain.

神被感动了，降下谷粒，如同下雨一般。

'Cause you're right, it has a kind of crunch to the centre of each grain.

说得对，每颗谷粒的中心都有一种嘎吱嘎吱脆的感觉。

Oats harvest arrives, and the fields are waving with yellow grain.

燕麦收获的季节到了，田野里落满金黄的谷粒。

If I could have found a large stone, slightly hollow on top, I might, by pounding the grain on it with another round stone, have made very good meal.

如果我能找到一块大石头，上面有点中空，我就可以用另一块圆石头把谷粒砸在上面，做成一顿美餐。

There is a study that shows that a colony of harvester ants is capable of collecting more than 18 million kernels of grain per acre a year.

有研究表明一群收获蚁收集能力可达每年每英亩一千八百多万颗谷粒。

It is usually obtained in the form of small grains called gold dust, but sometimes also in that of lumps called nuggets.

它通常以被称“金粉”的小谷粒的形式获得，但有时也可以以“金块”的块状形式获取。

The fowl has a very strong bill to crack seeds with, but it has no teeth for chewing its food.

鸡有一个特别坚硬的嘴, 名叫" 喙" （bill）；鸡就是用喙来啄开谷粒的, 但鸡并没有牙, 不能嚼食物。

It may be like all the extra estrogen in the urine that helped the grain to sprout.

可能是尿液中所有多余的雌激素能促使谷粒发芽。

The grain itself was destroyed by the firing, but left an impression of the pot which could be studied and identified by botanists.

大火破坏了谷粒，但是陶器上留下的印痕可以供植物家研究、辨认。

He takes it to the factory where the kernels are sorted by weight color and size.

他把它带到工厂，在那里会把谷粒按重量、颜色和大小分类。

One day, soon after Louis's return, the grain man stopped by with a sack of grain.

路易斯回家后不久，有一天，那个喂食者带着一袋谷粒站到了湖岸边。

They are always on the look-out for any kind of grain imaginable.

总是在寻找任何能想得到的谷粒。

The shell is hard and so the starch, when you heat it up, mixes with the moisture in the kernel and it boils inside of this.

外壳很硬，所以加热的时候，淀粉和谷粒中的水分混合在一起，在里面沸腾。

When the man spread the grain on the ground to feed the birds, Louis took off his slate and wrote, " Thank you very much! "

这个男人把谷粒撒到地上喂鸟的时候，路易斯摘下他的石板写道：“非常感谢！”

He carries the wheat to his barn, and there he thrashes it, or beats all the grains of corn out of the ears.

农民将麦子运到谷仓并打谷, 也就是将谷粒从麦穗中敲打出来。

Plenty of muskrat houses. Free grain. Games every day.

到处是麝鼠窝。谷粒随便吃。每天都有游戏玩。

In autumn and winter the sparrows feed on wheat and other kinds of grain.

秋天和冬天, 麻雀吃的是小麦和其他种类的谷粒。