Even then the tomato doesn't appear to have been very important as a food plant until the Europeans came on the scene.

即使在那时，西红柿似乎也并不是一种重要的食用植物，直到欧洲人出现。

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So can the movement of aphids when, having depleted the young leaves on one food plant, their offspring then fly onward to a different host plant, with no one aphid ever returning to where it started.

蚜虫的运动也是如此，当吃完一株食用植物的幼叶，它们的后代会飞到另一株宿主植物上，没有蚜虫会再回到最初的地方。

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This is especially so for rice, the most globally important food plant.

这一点在稻米这种世界上最重要的农作物身上尤其明显。

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Cassava has many food uses but the plant is not safe to eat unless it is specially prepared.

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And indeed, it's expressly stated by God that Humans are to be given every fruit bearing tree and seed bearing plant, fruits and grains for food.

而上帝也确实这样表述过,人们能拥有所有结果的树，结籽的植物，以果实和稻谷为食。

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