Did you read that book on seed germination on our reading list?

你读过我们书单里面的关于种子萌芽的那本书吗？

I read an article about seed germination by Lee Hall.

我读了一篇Lee Hall写的关于种子萌芽的文章。

I thought we could look at seed germination — how a seed begins to grow.

我觉得我们可以考虑一下种子萌芽--种子是如何开始生长的。

If you're a tree, seed dispersal and germination is a pretty risky business.

如果你是一棵树，你会明白把种子散播出去并生根发芽是一件很具有风险的事情。

But many historians now consider the Middle Ages to have been a-thousand-year period of germination and growth.

但许多历史学家现在认为中世纪是一千年的萌芽和成长时期。

This helped predict germination benefits and dispersal distance for any pair of animals and plants, based on their traits.

这有助于预测任何一对动植物的发芽效益和传播距离，根据它们的特征。

It's also really great if you're mixing it into your seedlings, germination mixes, and production mixes, when we talk about potting soils, right?

说到盆栽土壤，如果你将其混合到幼苗、发芽混合物和生产混合物中，是不是也不错？

First, they had to create models that could predict two interactions between plants and fruit-eating animals: germination and how far seeds were dispersed.

首先，他们必须创建模型来预测植物和食果动物之间的两种相互作用：发芽和种子散布的距离。

[Miriam] My name is Miriam. I am eight years old. I live in Montpelier, Vermont. My question is how does germination work?

我的问题是发芽是如何进行的？

Stifled as they were, they lay in him like seeds too deep for germination, which accident might some day bring near the surface and aerate into life.

尽管它们被窒息了，但它们像种子一样埋藏在他体内，太深而无法发芽，有一天可能会因意外而浮出水面并发芽。