英国学生科学读本 第24期:嫩豌豆(2)
时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：英国学生科学读本
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These pods are picked when they are large and full.
豌豆荚长大、长饱满之后, 人们就采下来,
The peas 2 are taken out, and boiled for us to eat.
把豌豆剥出来煮着吃。
Let us look at the curious flower of the pea 1-plant.
咱们再看看这种奇妙的豌豆花吧！
It has a little green outer cup, with five points or teeth,
豌豆花外面有一个绿色的杯子一样的东西, 长着五个尖儿,
Next come five pretty white leaves, of which one is much larger than the others, and stands up boldly 4.
里面是五个漂亮的白色花瓣, 有一片特别大, 往上耸立着,
There are two small white side leaves, and two other leaves lower 3 down,
旁边两侧各有一片白色的小花瓣,还有两片花瓣向下垂着,
which are shaped like a tiny boat.
像小船一样,
The whole flower looks very much like a butterfly.
整朵花看上去特别像一只蝴蝶,
Inside the white leaves are ten yellow dust-spikes.
白色的花瓣里面, 有10枚黄色的雄蕊。
Nine of them are joined together except at their tips,
其中9枚是连在一块儿的, 只有尖端是分开的,
and in the very middle of them is the young pod with its tiny seeds.
里面有小囊, 盛着非常小的种子。
Do you know any other plants that have flowers and pods like the pea?
你知道哪些别的植物, 也有豌豆这样的花和小囊吗?
Yes; there is the bean.
对了, 还有大豆,
Then the pretty tree called the golden-drop,
还有漂亮的“金链花”,
whose flowers you see in May and June,
是五六月间开花的植物,
belongs to the same family of plants as the pea;
跟豌豆是同一个家族,
but its seeds contain a kind of poison 5,
但是它的种子有毒,
and they will hurt you very much and perhaps kill you if you eat them.
要是吃了, 可能会得重病, 甚至有生命危险！
If you look at the yellow flowers of the prickly plant called the gorse or whin,
还有浑身是刺的“金雀花”, 也叫“棘豆”,
you will see that they, too, are shaped very much like the flowers of the pea.
它的花, 跟豌豆花的形状也非常像。
The heads of red and white clover, which you may see among grass,
在杂草中间, 你可能会看见红色和白色的“三叶草”探出头来, 这些小花,
are also made up of small flowers of the same kind.
也是豌豆花的同类。
n.豌豆；adj.大小如豌豆的
- Sweet pea seed can be sown in may.香豌豆籽可在五月份种上。
- Every Saturday dad made a beautiful pea and ham soup.每个星期六爸爸都做美味的豌豆火腿汤。
豌豆
- My little sister picked up many green peas in the field. 小妹从田野里拾到许多豌豆。
- The twin brothers are as like as two peas. 那两个兄弟毫无二致。
adj.较低的；地位较低的，低等的；低年级的；下游的；vt.放下，降下，放低；减低
- Society is divided into upper,middle and lower classes.社会分为上层、中层和下层阶级。
- This price is his minimum;he refuses to lower it any further.这个价格是他开的最低价，他拒绝再作任何降价。
adv.大胆地，显眼地；冒
- Everyone admires his spirit of doing boldly what is righteous. 人人都赞美他这种见义勇为的精神。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Do boldly what is righteous. 见义勇为。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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