数千年来农民使植物更好。
几十年来农民的用水量显著增长（见图表）。
Water use by farmers has increased sharply in recent decades (see chart).
许多农民不得不依靠补助来维持基本的生活需要。
Many farmers have to depend on subsidies to make a living wage.
贫穷的农民丢下干旱的农田，来这里寻找工作。
Poor farmers are deserting their parched farm fields and coming here looking for jobs.
它们被正式地列为有害动物，农民们试图通过射杀或投毒来减少它们的数量。
They are officially classified as harmful and farmers try to keep their numbers down by shooting or poisoning them.
罗斯福政府认为，恢复国有土地是符合国家利益的，也不只是一个牺牲其他公民的利益来帮助农民的计划。
The Roosevelt Administration believed that rebuilding the nation's soil was in the national interest and was not simply a plan to help farmers at the expense of other citizens.
农民通常用犁来整地，种植庄稼。
Farmers usually use plows to prepare their fields for planting crops.
他说，“孟山都不应该仅仅因为他们拥有数十亿美元的法律费用，就试图用大规模的武力和威胁来恐吓农民遵守他们的协议。”
He said: "Monsanto should not be able, just because they've got billions of dollars to spend on legal fees, to try to terrify farmers into obeying their agreements by massive force and threats."
对巴西雨林过去的评估已使用卫星图像来记录被砍伐的地区，那里的农民和牧场主把所有的树都砍光并烧掉了。
Past assessments of the Brazilian rain forest have used satellite images to tally deforested areas, where farmers and ranchers have clear-cut and burned all the trees.
农民也可以请求当地的狩猎服务来控制狐狸的数量。
Farmers can also call on the services of their local hunt to control the fox population.
不利因素包括老年人被单独留在家里自谋生路，农民找不到工人来管理他们的田地。
The disadvantages include elderly people being left alone to fend for themselves and farmers being unable to find workers to manage their fields.
在这种情况下，农民和农学家希冀能有专门的软件来为他们提供准确的植物数量统计。
In this instance, the farmers and agronomist are looking to specialized software to give them an accurate plant population count.
农民们能用喷雾器来除草而不伤大豆作物。
Farmers can use the spray to kill weeds without harming the soy crop.
农民已经通过改变种植计划来适应多变的天气。
Farmers already adapt to variable weather by changing their planting schedules.
早在使用机械和化肥之前，勤劳和富有创造性的中国农民就已经采用各种各样的方法来增加农作物产量。
Long before the use of machinery and fertilizers, industrious and creative farmers had already used different kinds of methods to increase crop yields.
由于这个节日是专门为农民设立的，所以鼓励他们想出自己的方式来庆祝丰收。
Since the festival is especially created for farmers, they are encouraged to think of their own ways to celebrate harvest.
当农民放弃靠种田或放牧来维持生计，树木就生长起来了。
When farmers give up trying to earn a living from farming or herding, trees simply move in.
农民使用氮肥来帮助种植更大的作物。
Farmers use nitrogen fertilizer (氮肥) to help grow bigger crops.
农民用水来种植蔬菜、水稻、玉米等农作物，工厂用水来制造产品。
Farmers use water to grow vegetables and crops like rice and corn, factories use water to make products.
2000年前开始，中国农民放风筝来迎接新年，以求给土地带来好运。
Starting 2,000 years ago, Chinese farmers flew kites to welcome the New Year and bring good luck to earth.
这位农民通过在抖音上销售产品来摆脱贫困。
The farmer put an end to poverty by selling products on Tiktok.
农民把地里的杂草犁入土中来肥田地。
The peasants ploughed the weeds in the field back to enrich the soil.
在那儿，他看到牧师跟他的教徒一样朴实，牧师也是农民，并不靠别人的劳动来享受。
There he sees a parson as simple as his flock, a farmer who does not riot on the labour of others.
在今年年底之前，他计划加装一个护目镜来告诉那些使用的农民葡萄是否成熟，他们的心率哟机消耗的卡路里。
By the end of the year, he plans to add augmented reality goggles that tell farmers about the ripeness of grapes, their heart rate, and their calorie consumption.
但在尼日尔，许多农民种植树木来保护庄稼。
But in Niger many farmers plant trees to protect their crops.
这幅图很清楚地告诉我们应该通过改进信息方面的设施来帮助农民与市场相联、得到更多的农业信息。
The picture makes it obvious that we should improve information facilities so that farmers can connect with the market and gain more agricultural information.
于是农民要种植更多的谷物来喂更多的家畜。于是肥料也用得更多。
So farmers need to grow more grain to feed more animals, and that takes more fertilizer.
IIIMP试验的成功表明了当我们重新设计一种灌溉系统以便把水作为一种稀缺的、珍贵的商品来对待，并调动农民参与管理时，可以取得什么样的成就。
The success of the IIIMP pilot in Egypt shows what can be done when an irrigation system is re-engineered to treat water as a scarce, precious commodity and to involve farmers in management.
IIIMP试验的成功表明了当我们重新设计一种灌溉系统以便把水作为一种稀缺的、珍贵的商品来对待，并调动农民参与管理时，可以取得什么样的成就。
The success of the IIIMP pilot in Egypt shows what can be done when an irrigation system is re-engineered to treat water as a scarce, precious commodity and to involve farmers in management.
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