Scientists have long sought such a stiff - leafed rice plant , believing that it would raise grain yields 科学家经过长期的努力，研究出这样一种有长而直的叶子的稻子，他们相信这种稻子会提高谷物的产量。
Farmer uncle is wielding the juice to pick the cotton , shears the rice , in the field a school is bustling about the abundant harvest scenery 农民伯伯正挥着汁摘着棉花，割着稻子，田野里一派忙碌丰收的景色。
But the gene is also present in the genome of unrelated species such as rice and barley , so it probably exists in most flowering plants 但是在无亲缘物种，如稻子和大麦的基因组中也存在这种基因。因此它有可能存在于大多数的显花植物中。
In the 1960s researchers bred rice plants to respond favorably to fertilizer , which helped prevent famine by allowing farmers to grow more rice per acre than ever before 在20世纪60年代，通过允许农民在一个比以前更小的地方种更多的稻子，研究者养殖大米作物使其对有利于防止饥荒的肥料有良好的反应。
Asia ' s green revolution centered on wheat and rice . but experts say no single crop will revolutionize farming in africa because farmers there grow a mixture of different crops 亚洲的绿色革命集中焦点是小麦和稻子。但是专家说单一的农作物会给非洲的种植方式带来革命，因为那里的农民种植不同的农作物。
In the first place , i went among it to see what damage was already done , and found they had spoil d a good deal of it , but that as it was yet too green for them , the loss was not so great , but that the remainder was like to be a good crop if it could be sav d 我先走进庄稼地看看损失的情况，发现那些飞禽已糟蹋了不少庄稼，但大麦和稻子还都在发青期，所以损失还不大。假如我能把其余部分保住，还可能有一个不错的收成。
I that was reduced to a meer state of nature , found this to my daily discouragement , and was made more and more sensible of it every hour , even after i had got the first handful of seed - corn , which , as i have said , came up unexpectedly , and indeed to a surprize 做面包的事成了天天苦恼我的心玻而且，自从我第一次无意中发现在石壁下长出稻子和大麦，并获得了一把粮种之后，随着时光的流逝，我简直无时无刻不想到做面包的事。
I cannot say that after this , for five years , any extraordinary thing happened to me , but i liv d on in the same course , in the same posture and place , just as before ; the chief things i was employ d in , besides my yearly labour of planting my barley and rice , and curing my raisins , of both which i always kept up just enough to have sufficient stock of one year s provisions beforehand 此后五年，我的生活环境和生活方式基本上没有什么变化，也没有什么特别的事情发生。我的主要工作是，每年按时种大麦和稻子，晒葡萄干，并把这些东西贮藏起来，供我一年吃用此外，就是天天带枪外出行猎。在此期间，除了这些日常工作外，我做的唯一一件大事就是给自己又造了一只独木舟，并最后确实也做成了。
Rice seeds can grow into crops and yield rice . however , if there is no one to sow the seeds in the wet soil , they will not sprout . after they have sprouted , if there is no one to take care of them , transplant them in neat rows , apply fertilizers and insecticides , and irrigate them , they cannot survive either 师父刚才说过了，现在再讲一次，像稻米的种子，它本来可以变成稻子，然后可以生米出来，不过如果没有人把它撒在湿的泥土里面，它不会发芽发芽以后，如果没有人照顾它，把它们分开，然后种清楚一行一行，然后下肥料浇农药浇水，它也无法生存。
