英國學(xué)生科學(xué)讀本 Lesson 65 洋蔥(1)
第65課 洋蔥
Onions have a very strong smell, which many people dislike; but for all that they are a very good and wholesome food. The onion is a hardy plant, and is easily grown. Let us go to a seed-shop and buy an ounce of onion seeds. They are small and black, and are rather flat in shape. We shall dig and rake a nice seed-bed in our garden, and early in March we shall sow the onion seeds there.
洋蔥的味道非常濃烈, 很多人都不喜歡;不過, 它們的確是一種非常有益和健康的食物。洋蔥對氣候的適應(yīng)性很強(qiáng), 因此特別容易生長。我們到種子商店去買上一盎司洋蔥種子。這些黑色的小種子是扁平的形狀。我們需要在花園中挖土、耙地, 培育一片苗床。到了三月初的時候就可以把洋蔥種子播下去了。
We must rake the seeds into the ground so as to bury them about an inch deep, and then we must flatten the earth upon them by beating it with a spade. After the seeds have been in the earth for a fortnight or so, we shall see the young green shoots of the onions springing up like blades of grass.
我們必須用耙子來播種, 以確保把它們埋在地下一英寸左右的地方, 然后反復(fù)地拍打鐵鍬將這片土地壓平。等到種子埋入地下兩周左右, 我們就能看到綠色的洋蔥嫩苗如草葉般破土而出。
But weeds will spring up with them, and these must be picked out. If the onions themselves have been planted closely together, they must be "thinned"—that is to say, some of them must be taken out, so that the others may have room to grow to their full size. In August or September the onions will be fully grown, and they must then be pulled up and stored in a dry room till they are wanted for cooking.
然而, 雜草也會隨著這些嫩苗一起生長, 必須將雜草清理干凈。如果洋蔥種植得過于密集, 那么就需要對它們進(jìn)行間苗, 也就是拔除一些洋蔥幼苗, 這樣才能夠確保剩下的幼苗獲得足夠的生長空間。到了八九月, 洋蔥就會完全成熟, 要從地里拔出來, 儲存在干燥的地方, 等到烹飪時再來取用。
If we do not pull up the onions, but leave them in the ground, each plant will send up a long, hollow flower-stalk, at the top of which there will grow a bunch of small white flowers, looking like a bal.
如果我們沒有拔出洋蔥, 而是把它們留在地里, 那么每一株植物都會長出長長的空心花葶, 其頂部又會生出一簇球狀的白色小花。
If we take an onion in our hand, we can see that in shape and in size. it is very much like an orange, and that the outside is covered with a thin brown skin.
把一顆洋蔥拿在手中, 仔細(xì)觀察就會發(fā)現(xiàn), 它的形狀、大小與橙子非常相似, 只是洋蔥的外面包裹了一層薄薄的褐色外皮。
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