It began with this news: READER: "The Christianized Indians in some parts of Plimouth, have newly appointed a day of Thanksgiving to God for his Mercy in supplying their extreme and pinching Necessities under their late want of Corn, & for His giving them now a prospect of a very Comfortable Harvest.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

In other words, the sacrificial cult was primarily a vehicle for worshipers' expression of a wide range of emotions: joy over the birth of a child, thankfulness for a good harvest and so on.

换句话说，献祭仪式从根本上来说,是表达崇拜者各种各样情感的一个途径：,新生儿带来的喜悦，对好收成的感谢，等等等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A team of surgeons is working to harvest an organ at one site while another team of surgeons is working to prepare the recipient at another site, and the organ is flown there.

一组外科医生,将器官从供体取出的同时,另一组医生在另一个地方,为移植手术做准备,等待器官空运过去

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

On a sunny afternoon in the southern U.S.state of North Carolina, Gwen Pitt is supervising the cotton harvest.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

She says it takes a lot of fuel to grow and harvest all that cotton.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12