It is a place where plants and animals from the Caribbean Sea share an ecosystem with native North American species.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The little insects were crawling around, the plants were there. And come back and look at it, over a period of weeks, and see what's changing.

我可以看到昆虫爬来爬去，还看到有些植物，几个星期后，再来看，看看发生了什么变化。

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So it was a major change in human evolution where people started raising animals in large groups or started growing plants in large amounts.

这在人来演化史上是个巨大的变革,人类开始大规模饲养动物,或是大量种植农作物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Scientists are also working on other plants that either use less water or use it better, or both.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

It's interesting how humans and plants have evolved together, and there's a very interesting book on this by Michael Pollan called, The Botany of Desire.

人和作物如何共同演化,这问题很有趣,迈克尔·保伦就此写了本很有意思的书,《植物的欲望》

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

They swallowed it whole. Their teeth were used to rip the meat or plants into mouth-sized pieces, but were not used for chewing.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Curtis Swift says if you use cloth sheeting, suspend it at least five centimeters above the plants.

VOA: special.2011.08.09

Scientists are also working on other plants that either use less water or use it better,or both.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

He is working to develop disease-resistant plants, but he says it will probably take five years.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Material called a growth medium is put on the joint to keep it from getting dry and to help the two plants grow together.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

This balanced system makes it possible for plants, animals and people to survive on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

They brought in more than fourteen thousand cubic meters of fertile soil from New Jersey to make it possible to grow trees and other plants.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Other plants take nitrogen out of the soil, but beans and other legumes replace it.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

They try to remove lead from soil by growing certain plants that collect it.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

From it he could see a large garden that had many plants and flowers.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

It took a great deal of time and effort to gather fibers from plants or animals to make into yarn which could then be made into cloth.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

And it looks at new developments such as plastic made from plants.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

It is also the color of most growing plants.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

It provides nutrients for plants.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

"So it's beyond a garden." To care for the plants, there is a team of eight workers, mostly unemployed people from Overtown.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

It was an outdoor arboretum with trails,benches and signs identifying native plants with their English and Latin names.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Uranium enrichment is the process used to make fuel for nuclear power plants, but when extended it can also produce fissile material for an atomic bomb.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

But a good chunk of it is swampland. The famous Everglades, a slow-moving sheet of water full of plants and alligators, cover much of the southern part of the state.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Even after being processed at the city's water treatment plants the water takes another journey through leaky pipes that ensure it is no longer drinkable once it reaches people's homes.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The Okefenokee,which is already nearly choked with plants, would probably fill in,dry up, and become just another cypress and pine forest were it not for range fires that come along every once in awhile and burn out decayed vegetation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

General Motors says it will lay off nearly 50,000 employees this year and that it plans to close five assembly plants, eliminate thousands of dealerships and reduce the number of its brands from eight to four - all in an effort to stay afloat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30