时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2010年VOA慢速英语(十)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.


Some people like to start their dinner with a salad of lettuce 1 or other leafy greens. Ancient Egyptians and Romans also liked to have lettuce with their evening meal. But they served it at the end.


There are hundreds of kinds of head and leaf lettuces 2. The most popular ones include head lettuces such as iceberg 3, Boston, bibb and romaine.


Experts say lettuce is one of the easiest vegetables to grow in your garden. The best time to plant the seeds is during cool weather. Advisers 4 at the University of Illinois Extension say the best planting temperature is fifteen degrees Celsius 5.


Lettuce seeds are small, so do not place them too deep in the ground. If you plant some seeds every week or two, you will have harvests ready to eat one after another.


You can use a seed tray to start the seeds indoors. The container should be deep enough to hold at least three centimeters of soil.


There should be about one centimeter of space between the soil and the top of the container. The container should have holes in the bottom so extra water can flow out.



Ben Sippel picks romaine lettuce for his business in Mount Gilead, Ohio in this file photo from 2007


Drop the seeds over the surface and cover them lightly with soil. If the soil is not already a little wet, give it some water. But not too much -- you do not want to drown the seeds.


Next, cover the seed tray with paper. Remove the paper when the seedlings 6 have grown up far enough to touch it. You can transplant the seedlings into the garden when they are about two to three centimeters tall. Do this when the weather is not too hot and not too cold.


Take out as much of the soil as you can with the seedlings. Plant them in the ground in a hole that is bigger than the lettuce roots. Keep the plants watered, but not too heavily.


Harvest leaf lettuces when the leaves are big enough to eat. Pull the leaves from the outside of the planting so the inside leaves will keep growing. Or, you can cut off the whole plant. Leave about two or three centimeters above the ground so the plant will re-grow. Cut off head lettuces at ground level.


Lettuce is best when served fresh. Store the remainder in the refrigerator in a plastic bag. It will last a few days and sometimes longer.


And that’s the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. Transcripts 7 and podcasts of our reports are at voaspecialenglish.com. And captioned 8 videos are on YouTube at VOA Learning English. I'm Faith Lapidus

 



n.莴苣;生菜
  • Get some lettuce and tomatoes so I can make a salad.买些莴苣和西红柿,我好做色拉。
  • The lettuce is crisp and cold.莴苣松脆爽口。
n.莴苣,生菜( lettuce的名词复数 );生菜叶
  • My lettuces have gone to seed. 我种的莴苣已结子。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Are these lettuces home-grown or did you buy them in the market? 这些生菜是自家种的呢,还是你在市场上买的? 来自辞典例句
n.冰山,流冰,冷冰冰的人
  • The ship hit an iceberg and went under.船撞上一座冰山而沉没了。
  • The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
顾问,劝告者( adviser的名词复数 ); (指导大学新生学科问题等的)指导教授
  • a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
  • She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。
adj.摄氏温度计的,摄氏的
  • The temperature tonight will fall to seven degrees Celsius.今晚气温将下降到七摄氏度。
  • The maximum temperature in July may be 36 degrees Celsius.七月份最高温度可能达到36摄氏度。
n.刚出芽的幼苗( seedling的名词复数 )
  • Ninety-five per cent of the new seedlings have survived. 新栽的树苗95%都已成活。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • In such wet weather we must prevent the seedlings from rotting. 这样的阴雨天要防止烂秧。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.抄本( transcript的名词复数 );转写本;文字本;副本
  • 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
a.标题项下的; 标题所说的
  • This paper reviews the production, development and nationalization of the captioned materials. 本文就铜系合金引线框架材料的生产、发展和国产化进程作一论述。
  • Please advise other considerable hotels for this captioned group. 请推荐其它一些高级的旅馆给这一群打标语的人。
学英语单词
abnormal depreciation
aerodynamic brake
allowable axial compensation of clutch
aminopterin
anhwei-aconitine
Antirrhinum linaria
arms chest
asap
associated facilities
associated fibre bundle
ATnativ
atomic energy board of south africa
ayu
bale buncher
balkanizing
batallions
be in process
beautyrest
behandle
Beitaia
blepharadenitis
branch equation
brushgear housing
cable bearer
calabar-bean poisoning
cave earth
celialgia
cheseble
chlorine comparator
choroisopleth diagram
completion inspection
continuous system model
cutterbar control lever
dbof
dissolved organic phosphorus (dop)
dolezalex electrometer
donnan
educational experiment
electron velocity analyzer
European Community Treaty
exhibition vessel
future business
garden net
Geluwe
george balanchines
gorsachius melanolophus
hand turning gear
heat under reflux
infaunate
intra branch division of labour
IPDC
lead alloy sheathing
loop transmission function
lydian scale
mid-flight
misleading error allowance
mixed-doubles
monobasic acid
Mosby, John Singleton
Nitil(Natl)
non-condensing automatic extraction turbine
Obereschenbach
Oluku
One Fathom Bank
open pass
paint-grade talc
paradoxite
Peucetia
plumbylenes
pneophor
priority level
probable error of standard deviation
quasi-loan
quasibessemerizing
regularization
rhombal distortion
rhr service water booster pump
Santa Barbara Islands
satisfieth
scientific wild ass guess
self-reassurance
septum primum
shionol
sonar rubber
sports world
stress relieve
system of evaluation
telegraph modulation
tempering gas duct
the black sheep
travel package
trichoesthesia
troop carrier mission
undelete command
undersegmentation
urethrotome
vacuum testing
vapor lock
vernier gear tooth gauge
vicarious performance
voluntary-aideds
Waldhof yeast assimilation tank