The maize plant bears two kinds of flowers, -male and female.

玉米开的有两种——雄和雌。

Instead, they rely on outside forces to transport their tiny pollen grains from male flower parts to female ones.

代之的是，它们依靠外部力量将微小的粉粒从雄转移到雌。

B. Male and female flowers grow on the same plant.

B. 雄和雌长同一株植物上。

That's when the plant's female flowers blossom, luring pollinators that become entrapped until they can depart the following night.

此，植物的雌绽放，吸引传粉者， 这些传粉者会被困住， 直到第二天晚上才能离开。

The female flowers are about three-eighths of an inch long, pale green, and grow in countless thousands on the ends of sprays.

雌长约八分之三英寸，呈淡绿，束的末端长出无数。

The male flowers are on the tassel; the fine silk threads which surround the ear, and peep out from the end of the husks, are the female flowers.

那种围绕着包谷生长并包皮的末端隐约露出的丝一样的细线，就是雌。

Each grain on the cob is the starting point for a thread of silk; and, unless the thread receives some particle of the dust which falls from the tassel flowers, the kernel with which it is connected will not grow.

玉米穗轴上的每一个颗粒都是一束丝状雌的起点，除非束获得来自于穗状雄的微粒，否则它所连接的内核就无法成长。

The weather had been cold and boisterous and therefore not favourable to bees, nevertheless every female flower which I examined had been effectually fertilised by the bees, which had flown from tree to tree in search of nectar.

天气寒冷喧闹， 因此对蜜蜂不利， 但我检查过的每一朵雌都被蜜蜂有效地授粉， 蜜蜂从一棵树飞到另一棵树上寻找蜜。