He called up Norman Borlaug, now leading a semi-retired life, for help.
他打电话向现在正过着半退休生活的诺曼·博劳格寻求帮助。
For his contributions to the world food supply, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.
由于他对世界粮食供应的贡献，博洛格于1970年被授予诺贝尔和平奖。
Borlaug later recalled, "but after I saw the terrible circumstances there, I said, 'Let's just start growing'."
博劳格后来回忆说：“但在我看到那里糟糕的状况后，我说：‘让我们开始种植吧’。”
The man in focus is Norman Borlaug, the Father of the "Green Revolution", who died on September 12, 2009 at age 95.
焦点人物是“绿色革命”之父诺曼·博劳格，他于2009年9月12日去世，享年95岁。
Cultural opposition to new agricultural techniques initially prevented Borlaug from going ahead with planting of new wheat strains in India.
对新农业技术的文化反对首先阻止了博劳格在印度继续种植新的小麦品种。
Wheat varieties that Borlaug worked with had tall, thin stalks.
博洛格研究的小麦品种有又高又细的茎。
Borlaug said that his first couple of years in Mexico were difficult.
博洛格说他在墨西哥的头几年很艰难。
"I'm a product of the great depression" is how Borlaug described himself.
“我是大萧条的产物”是博洛格对自己的描述。
From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington.
从1942年到1944年，博洛格在威尔明顿的杜邦公司担任微生物学家。
He managed to convince Borlaug to help with his new effort and subsequently founded the Sasakawa Africa Association.
他设法说服博洛格帮助他的新工作，随后成立了佐佐川非洲协会。
In his acceptance speech, Borlaug said, "the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind."
在获奖感言中，博洛格说：“社会正义的首要组成部分是为全人类提供足够的食物。”
To overcome this, Borlaug worked on breeding wheat with shorter and stronger stalks, which could hold on larger seed heads.
为了克服这个问题，博洛格致力于培育具有更短更强壮茎干的小麦，这样的小麦可以拥有更大的种子头。
By employing agricultural techniques he developed in Mexico, Borlaug was able to nearly double South Asian wheat harvests between 1965 and 1970.
博洛格通过采用他在墨西哥开发的农业技术，使南亚的小麦产量在1965年至1970年间翻了一番。
However, following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Borlaug tried to join the military, but was rejected under wartime labour regulations.
然而，在1941年12月7日袭击珍珠港后，博洛格试图参军，但因战时的劳动法规被拒绝。
Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.
博洛格开始在洛克菲勒基金会资助的墨西哥项目中工作，通过开发高产品种来提高小麦产量。
A great grandson of Norwegian immigrants to the United States, Borlaug was born in 1914 and grew up on a small farm in the northeastern corner of Iowa in a town called Cresco.
作为挪威移民美国的曾孙，博洛格1914年出生，在爱荷华州东北角一个叫克列斯科小镇上的一个小农场中长大。
A great-grandson of Norwegian immigrants to the United States, Borlaug was born in 1914 and grew up on a small farm in the northeastern corner of Iowa in a town called Cresco.
博洛格是美国挪威移民的曾孙，1914年出生，在爱荷华州东北角一个名为Cresco 的小镇上的一个小农场长大。
But through a Great Depression era programme, known as the "National Youth Administration", Borlaug was able to enroll in the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to study forestry.
但是，通过一个被称为“国家青年管理局”的大萧条时期的项目，博洛格得以进入明尼阿波利斯市的明尼苏达大学学习林业。
"Rust never sleeps," Borlaug once said.
“锈病从不睡觉”，Borlaug曾经说过。
Rust, Borlaug once said, "never sleeps."
博劳格曾经说过，锈病病菌“从不停止活动”。
Borlaug used a mighty rust-resisting gene that lasted 40 years.
Borlaug使用了一个强大的可以抵御锈病的基因，而它仅维持了40年。
Norman Borlaug and his team had even greater success in Pakistan and India.
诺曼·博洛格和他的团队在巴基斯坦和印度取得了更大的成功。
Norman Borlaug was born ninety-four years ago on a farm in the American state of Iowa.
九十四年前，诺曼.博洛格出生在美国的爱荷华州的一个农场里。
Mister Borlaug is still urging experts to think about the needs of people around the world.
博洛格先生仍然在敦促专家们考虑全球人民的需求问题。
She says Norman Borlaug still believes it is our responsibility as human beings to feed one another.
她说，诺曼·博洛格仍然认为人类养活自己是我们共同的责任。
Norman Borlaug, the greatAmerican agronomist who died last year, conducted his original research intowheat rust.
去年逝世的伟大的美国农学家诺曼·博劳格进行了对于小麦锈病的最初研究。
In that sense, he truly is following in the footsteps of the founder of the World Food Prize, Dr. Norman Borlaug.
从这个意义上说，他是世界粮食奖创始人诺曼·博洛格博士的真正追随者。
Norman Borlaug, the great American agronomist who died last year, conducted his original research into wheat rust.
去年逝世的伟大的美国农学家诺曼·博劳格进行了对于小麦锈病的最初研究。
Norman Borlaug, the great American agronomist who died last year, conducted his original research into wheat rust.
去年逝世的伟大的美国农学家诺曼·博劳格进行了对于小麦锈病的最初研究。
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