Not entirely accurate about that either, from what we now know about the profitability of slavery and the profitability of the cotton crop.
这点其实也不完全正确,因为我们已经讲到过,奴隶制和棉花作物能产生巨大的经济利益
So, you find another crop that will grow there that can be useful; that's the picture.
也许你换另一种作物就能长得很好,这样也许会有用,这幅图景就是这样的
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》
Everything is farmed in a new way and let me just give you a picture of what this new farm that Hanson describes is like.
每种作物都是以新的方式来栽种,让我来描绘一下这幅新农场的图景吧,就如汉森描绘的那样
Once they have it, and they plant permanent crops, that changes the whole basis of society and the values, and the attitudes that go with it.
一旦他们拥有了土地,他们会栽种长期作物,这就改变了整个社会的物质基础和价值观,以及处理这种问题时的态度
A lot of it can't produce the crop you would most like to grow.
大多数土壤并不能栽种出你最想要的作物
So, we have evidence that the king doled out seed for planting, instructed people just exactly when to plant, where to plant, what to plant there, when to fertilize it if they did.
也有证据表明,国王恩赐作物种子,指导人民在何时,何地,耕种何种植物,以及如何在恰当的时间施肥
So, you have varied crops, among them.
然后,你更换不同的作物,在土地上轮作
Have we left out any other crops?
我们还有什么作物没有提到吗
The biodiversity has shrunk for various reasons of profitability and as a consequence of that things like corn crops, and the orange crops in Florida are particularly susceptible to certain environmental conditions, certain pests, and certain types of blight.
生物多样性的减少源自利益的驱动,和玉米一样,佛罗里达的柑橘作物很容易受到,一定环境条件的影响,还有虫害和枯萎病
Corinth always needs that kind of stuff, so we sell you our wheat, you sell us your pottery, you sell us good wine that we can't grow yet and maybe never will be able to grow in our neighborhood, so on and so forth.
科林斯很需要这些作物,所以我们销售给你们小麦,你们销售陶器,美酒给我们,这些我们暂且无法生产,而且我们周边地区也许永远无法生产这些,诸如此类的作物
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