温馨夜读 PART2 14 Growing Good Corn 如何种好玉米

 

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[00:00.43]Growing Good Corn 如何种好玉米

[00:06.55]There was a Nebraska farmer who grew award-winning corn.

[00:12.13]Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon.

[00:18.25]One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him

[00:22.52]and learned something interesting about how he grew it.

[00:26.24]The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.

[00:31.81]“How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors

[00:37.06]when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.

[00:43.08]“Why sir,”said the farmer,“didn't you know?

[00:47.13]The wind picks up pollen¹ from the ripening² corn and swirls³ it from field to field.

[00:53.47]If my neighbors grow inferior corn,

[00:56.42]cross-pollination will steadily⁴ degrade the quality of my corn.

[01:01.56]If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”

[01:06.70]He is very much aware of the connectedness of life.

[01:10.97]His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves.

[01:16.55]So it is in other dimensions.

[01:19.72]Those who choose to be at peace must help their neighbors to be at peace.

[01:24.86]Those who choose to live well must help others to live well,

[01:29.24]for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.

[01:33.61]And those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness

[01:38.64]for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

[01:43.01]The lesson for each of us is this:if we are to grow good corn,

[01:49.14]we must help our neighbors grow good corn.

1 pollen   

n.[植]花粉

参考例句：

• Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious.蜂鸟发现花蜜和花粉是很有营养的。
• He developed an allergy to pollen.他对花粉过敏。

2 ripening   

v.成熟，使熟( ripen的现在分词 )；熟化；熟成

参考例句：

• The corn is blossoming [ripening]. 玉米正在开花[成熟]。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• When the summer crop is ripening, the autumn crop has to be sowed. 夏季作物成熟时，就得播种秋季作物。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 swirls   

n.旋转( swirl的名词复数 )；卷状物；漩涡；尘旋v.旋转，打旋( swirl的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Swirls of smoke rose through the trees. 树林中升起盘旋的青烟。 来自辞典例句
• On reaching the southeast corner of Himalaya-Tibet, It'swirls cyclonically across the Yunnan Plateau. 在到达喜马拉雅--西藏高原东南角处，它作气旋性转向越过云南高原。 来自辞典例句

4 steadily   

adv.稳定地；不变地；持续地

参考例句：

• The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
• Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。