Last spring,Michelle Obama and a group of students planted a vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Now, figure in the fact that smoking is playing a role, physical activity is playing a role, still just changing fruit and vegetable consumption potentially could reduce heart disease worldwide by this much: stroke by 19% and some cancers by as much as 20%.

实际上吸烟和运动都对此有影响,即使将这些因素都考虑进去,仅仅改变水果和蔬菜的摄入量仍然能,在全球范围内减少这么多的心脏病得病率,中风减少19%而某些癌症减少达20%

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It's got a very good fruits and vegetable market further down,

往下走一点有一个很不错的蔬菜水果市场，

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Hoop houses for winter growing can even be found at the White House, where Michelle Obama has a vegetable garden.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

This is very interesting important work and if this comes about-- I mean as the work on this becomes more and more robust, and the measurement gets better and better, this will be a huge help because then we'll have a better sense of exactly what kind of things people are eating on the vegetable front.

这是非常有意思并且重要的工作,如果这成为现实,我是说随着这方面的技术越来越成熟,测量效果越来越好,这将成为极大助力,因为那时我们,能更好的知道人们,吃了什么蔬菜

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Now Susan Mayne, who is a Professor here in the School of Public Health, has done some very interesting work with an electronic device that can be passed over the palm of your hand and measures pigmentation in the hand as a way to assess vegetable intake in people.

苏珊·梅恩,我们公共卫生学院的教授,做了些值得关注的工作,通过电子设备,扫描你的手掌,测算其上色素沉淀,可以得出人们蔬菜的摄入量

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

When people think of carrots, they usually picture in their mind a vegetable that is long,thin and orange.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

But Hamburg parsley has a large root which is used as a vegetable.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

If the root is used, then parsley is considered a vegetable.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Beets are a tasty root vegetable that do not require much work to grow.

VOA: special.2009.02.17

This week,we move from root vegetables to a leafy vegetable.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The potato is a popular vegetable in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

The World Food Program says it provided high energy biscuits to 7,000 people last week and on Friday it began distributing a one-month ration of cereals, pulses,vegetable oil, salt and sugar to 10,000 people.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

A middle-aged man who works at the market complained that it made no sense to him why anyone would put a bomb in a crowded vegetable market: He said that all the traders and sellers were going about their business when the explosion took place.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01