VOA慢速英语2009-Agriculture Report - Not All Carrots Are Orange
时间：2018-12-07 作者：英语课 分类：VOA慢速英语2009年（二）月
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
We talked last week about growing beets 1. Today we have advice about growing another root vegetable, carrots. Carrots are easy to raise and easy to harvest. They taste good. And they contain a lot of carotene, which the body makes into vitamin 2 A.
When people think of carrots, they usually picture in their mind a vegetable that is long, thin and orange. But carrots come in many different sizes and shapes. And not all carrots are orange.
For example, Paris Market carrots are about five centimeters around. Imperator carrots are thin and about twenty-five centimeters long. And Belgian White carrots are, as their name suggests, white.
For the best results, carrots should be grown in sandy soil that does not hold water for a long time. The soil also should have no rocks.
To prepare your garden for carrots, dig 3 up the soil, loosen 4 it and turn it over. Then, mix in some plant material or animal fertilizer 5.
Weather, soil conditions and age will affect the way carrots taste. Experts say warm days, cool nights and a medium soil temperature are the best conditions for growing carrots that taste great.
Carrots need time to develop their full sugar content. This gives them their taste. If they are harvested too early, they will not have enough sugar. But carrots loose their sweetness if you wait too long to pull them from the ground.
The best way to judge if a carrot is ready to be harvested is by its color. Usually, the brighter the color, the better the taste.
Many people do not know that carrots can be grown during the winter months. If the winter is not cold enough to freeze the ground, you can grow and harvest carrots the same way as during the summer months.
If the ground does freeze in your part of the world, simply cover your carrot garden with a thick layer of leaves or straw 6. This will prevent the ground from freezing. You can remove the ground cover and harvest the carrots as they are needed.
Carrots are one of the world's most popular vegetables. They can be cooked and prepared many different ways. Or, once they are washed, they can be eaten just as they come out of the ground.
And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For more agricultural 7 advice, go to voaspecialenglish.com for transcripts 8, MP3s and podcasts of our reports. And our e-mail address is special@voanews.com. I'm Jim Tedder 9.
- Beets are Hank's favorite vegetable. 甜菜根是汉克最爱吃的蔬菜。
- In this enlargement, barley, alfalfa, and sugar beets can be differentiated. 在这张放大的照片上，大麦，苜蓿和甜菜都能被区分开。
- Oranges are rich in vitamin C.橙子富含维生素C。
- Vitamin pills make up what you lack in your diet.维生素丸可补充你食物中所缺乏的营养。
- It is difficult to dig the ground when it is frozen.地面冻住了就不易挖掘。
- In those days we often went to dig for wild vegetables.那时候我们常常出去挖野菜。
- I must take some exercise and loosen up my muscles.我必须活动活动使肌肉放松些。
- The medicine may loosen your cough.这种药能减轻你的咳嗽。
- Fertilizer enriches the soil.肥料使土壤肥沃。
- Get some more fertilizer for the garden.给花园再多施些肥料。
- The old peasant is twisting pieces of straw into a rope.这位老农民正把稻草搓成绳子。
- May I have a straw for my drink?给我一根喝饮料的吸管好吗？
- He was trained for gardening at the Agricultural College.他在农业大学学园艺。
- France once was an agricultural country.法国曾是个农业国。
- Like mRNA, both tRNA and rRNA are transcripts of chromosomal DNA. tRNA及rRNA同mRNA一样，都是染色体DNA的转录产物。 来自辞典例句
- You can't take the transfer students'exam without your transcripts. 没有成绩证明书，你就不能参加转学考试。 来自辞典例句