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1、The Incredible Potato不可思议的马铃薯This is the vegetable that conquered the world: the peasant s 农民life support, the food lover s美食爱好者delight, nutritious, loved and hatedthe incredible 不可思议potato, the amazing 惊人spud. Among the first Europeans to see the plant the Indians called “ papa” were Francisco Piza
2、rro and his soldiers. When they invaded 侵略 Peru in the 1530s, they were unaware意思of the buried 埋藏 treasure 宝藏 beneath 在.下 their feet. They rode roughly over the papa in hot pursuit of the Inca Emperor, Atahualpa, and his gold. Introduced 提出，引进into Europe over the next years, the potato began four ce
3、nturies of world conquest. The Inca Empire has vanished消失 . Spain s glory is only a memory.记忆 The potato still survives. Compared with 与。相比 the vast 巨大。广阔的 benefits this unusual plant has given to man, all the gold of Peru becomes worthless. Today, the potato is produced in 130 of the world s 167 in
4、dependent countries. One year s crop,收成 at consumer 消费者prices, is worth 106 billion dollars, more than the value of all the gold and silver 银 the Spanish ever took out of the New World. The average每年 annual crop (29 million tons) could cover覆盖 a four-lane superhighway circling the world six-times. T
5、he potato is so nutritious that a man in Scandinavia lived healthily for 300 days on only spuds covered with a bit of margarine. 黄油。It takes seven pounds of potatoes to total 2500 calories, the approximate adult daily requirement; so eating a spud without cream or butter in no more fattening than ea
6、ting a pear the potato itself is 99.9 percent far free. An acre 每英亩 of potatoes yields almost as much food as two acres of grain稻谷 , and when the water that composes about 80 percent of potatoes is squeezed out 挤出 , they provide annually more dry food than the combined world wide consumption of fish
7、 and meat. Without potatoes, meat production 生产 would fall and meat prices rise; nearly half the world s crop 农作物is fed to animals. What has made the potato a king among vegetables? Fruitfulness, strength, nutritiousness and, above all, its many uses, which is why in India a man who can do anything
8、is called “ alu” potato. Nutritionists 营养学家rate认为the quality of potato protein higher than that of the soybean大豆 , and a single spud can supply half the daily Vitamin C requirement of an adult, a fact sea captains 船长 early guessed at when they carried potatoes to prevent disease among their crews 船员
9、 . If captain and crew had been cast away on an island with a sack 袋 of potatoes, they could have grown a ton of food within a year and survived. With milk they could have held out indefinitely. A potato crop is as well suited to home gardening as it is to large-scale commercial production. It may a
10、lso become a useful source of energy in the decades to come, we may be burning燃烧 potato gasohol 酒精in our cars. When Henry Ford first got into the automobile business, he predicted the world would soon run out of cheap petroleum廉价酒精. To make alcohol 为了发明酒精 , he ordered potatoes from Europe that were
11、grown for industrial purposes, but the project was apparently disastrous. (From the way things are going, it looks like Ford did have a better idea.) Researchers have shown that one acre of potatoes can yield 1200 gallons of pure alcohol in a year. 这是蔬菜，征服了世界：农民生活的支柱，美食爱好者的喜爱，有营养的，爱和恨不可思议 的马铃薯，惊人的土豆
12、；在第一批欧洲人看到的植物印第安人称为“ 爸爸” 是弗朗西斯科皮萨罗和他的士兵。当他们入 侵秘鲁在 1530s ，他们没有意识到他们脚下的宝藏。他们骑着大约在印加国王阿塔瓦尔帕， papa，和他的金。 引入欧洲，在接下来的几年，马铃薯开始的四个世纪的征服世界。印加帝国已经消失了。西 班牙的荣誉只是一个记忆。马铃薯仍然存在。与巨大的利益这一不寻常的植物给人相比，秘 鲁的所有黄金变得一文不值。 今天，马铃薯是世界上130 的 167 个独立国家的产生。一年的收成，消费者价格指数， 价值106000000000美元，超过该值的所有金银西班牙曾拿出新的世界。平均年产量 （29000000 吨）可以覆盖
13、一四车道高速公路环绕世界六次。它需要七磅土豆总2500 卡路里，近似成人每日需求；所以食用不加奶油或黄油的土豆不 增肥比吃梨马铃薯本身是百分之99.9 远的自由。土豆每英亩的产量几乎两英亩的粮食多的食 物， 当构成约百分之 80 的土豆的水分挤出，他们每年能提供干吃鱼和肉的联合全世界消费的。 没有马铃薯，肉类产量将下降，肉类价格上涨；世界上几乎一半的农作物喂养动物。 是什么使马铃薯在蔬菜之王？结实，强度，有营养和，最重要的是，它的许多用途，这就 是为什么在印度的一个什么都能干的人被称为“ 铝” 马铃薯 营养师率马铃薯蛋白高于大豆的质量，和一个单一的土豆能供给一半每日维生素C 需要 一个成年人，一个事实的船长早猜到当他们抬着土豆来防止在船员疾病。如果船长和船员们 被抛在一个岛上，一袋土豆，他们可能已经在一年一吨食物和生存。牛奶可以无限期地坚持 下去。马铃薯作物是适合家庭园艺的，也是适合大规模的商业化生产 它也可能在今后的几十年中成为一个有用的能源，我们可以在我们的汽车汽油燃烧的马铃 薯。当亨利福特第一次进入汽车行业，他预言世界将很快耗尽的廉价石油。使酒精，他下令 土豆从欧洲，成长为工业用途，但该项目显然是灾难性的。（从事情的方式，它看起来像福 特有一个更好的主意。）的研究人员已经证明，一英亩马铃薯在一年能生产1200 加仑的纯 酒精。
