The man walking can learn the trees, flowers, insects, birds and animals, the significance of seasons, the very feel of himself as a living creature in a living world.

行走中的人可以认识树木、花朵、昆虫、鸟类和动物，了解不同季节的意义，感受自己作为一个活生生的人生活在一个生机勃勃的世界里。

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In 1699 she sailed with her daughter nearly 5,000 miles from the Netherlands to South America to study insects in the jungles of what is now known as Suriname.

1699年，她和女儿从荷兰出发，航行近5000英里来到南美洲，在如今的苏里南丛林中研究昆虫。

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One day, insects could be marketed and sold as food item in supermarket.

有一天，昆虫可能作为食品在超市里销售。

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Sweet,peaceful stars filled the sky as the night birds sang softly, and tiny insects buzzed in the soft air.

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Well, i mean a cockroach might be seen as being harmful because we consider them dirty, disgusting, revolting insects and we don't define insects as something we eat, at least in our culture.

蟑螂看起来可能是有害的,因为我们觉得它脏,恶心,是令人厌恶的害虫,我们不把害虫定义为食物,至少在我们的文化中是这样的

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For example, the insects can smell carbon dioxide in the breath of a person or animal from as far away as sixty meters.

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Increased heat stress and disease (as insects flourish in the mild winters) will destroy more and more forests, and less CO2 uptake occurs.

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If you are interested in insects as food, contact Alexandre Kournwsky, co-founder of Ambrosia or Wageningen University, which has a four year program designed to produce scientific and business research on the subject.

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Conventional livestock take up so much in the way of environmental resources that some have long suggested that creatures lower down in the food chain insects might in theory provide just as much protein in a more environmentally friendly way.

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