When a woman in Montana was attacked by a black bear, she threw a courgette at it. Photograph: alamy.

当一个蒙大拿州女人被一只黑熊攻击，她朝它扔小胡瓜。

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The woman, whom police have not named, grabbed the closest object - a courgette from her garden - and threw it at the bear, causing it to flee.

警方并未透露其姓名的那名女子，就近抄起自家园子种的西葫芦，朝着黑熊砸去，把黑熊给打跑了。

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People feel wary of this - that they will disrupt the crop - but not if you pick mostly male flowers and leave the female flowers, with a small courgette forming behind the flower to grow on.

人们会担心——把作物毁坏了——但如果你采的大多是雄花，留下雌花，雌花后面都带有小胡瓜，就没有关系。

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German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, UK Prime Minister John Major and French President Francois Mitterrand toasted their agreement to pursue European Monetary Union over a lunch of lobster in a lemon and courgette chutney, followed by pheasant.

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