Wheat, maize and rice all started life as wild grasses, which we've bred into crops.

小麦、玉米和大米最初都是野草，我们把它们培育成了农作物。

I thought he had found a new kind of wild grass, or a new kind of tree.

我想也许他找到了一种新草或是新树种。

Only the tall wild grass covered the endless empty land and a great empty sky arched over it.

只有高高的野草覆盖着一望无际的空地，空旷的天空笼罩着它。

After the harvest, only some wild flowers and wild grass will be left there until winter comes.

收获后，那里只会留下一些野花和野草，直到冬天到来。

Outside, and far, far away to the pink edge of the sky, the wind went blowing and the wild grasses waved.

外面，很远很远，在粉红色的天空边缘，风在吹，野草在摇摆。

Sukey and Rosie, the cows, were turned loose in the woods now, to eat the wild grass and the juicy new leaves.

Sukey 和 Rosie， 奶牛，现在在树林里放牧，吃野草和多汁的新叶。

Certainly, as I strolled round the court, the foundation of gold and silver seemed deep enough;the pavement laid solidly over the wild grasses.

当然，当我在庭院里漫步时，金银的地基似乎足够深； 人行道坚实地铺在野草上。

Here on the High Prairie, the sun had cured the wild grass where it stood, and all winter the mustangs and the cow could mow their own hay.

在大草原上， 太阳晒干了原地的野草，整个冬天野马和母牛都可以自己割草。

Over the last millennia, our ancestors have pursued this in basic ways, for instance, by improving milk production from cows and making a wild grass called teosinte into edible corn.

在过去的几千年里， 我们的祖先一直在以基本的方式追求这一点，例如，通过提高奶牛的产奶量， 以及将一种叫做类蜀黍的野草制成可食用的玉米。

The banana company's city, which Patricia Brown may have tried to evoke for her grandchildren during the nights of intolerance and dill pickles in Prattville, Alabama, was a plain of wild grass.

帕特里夏·布朗 (Patricia Brown) 在阿拉巴马州普拉特维尔 (Prattville) 的不宽容和莳萝泡菜的夜晚可能试图为她的孙子们唤起香蕉公司的城市，那是一片野草平原。

They spoke of the charms of stumbling over new varieties of bunkers, wild grass, and rosebushes. They raved over long shots across sand dunes, and disastrous ponds in which to lose dozens of golf balls.

他们谈到了在新品种的沙坑、野草和玫瑰丛中跌跌撞撞的魅力。他们对穿越沙丘和灾难性池塘的远射赞不绝口，在这些池塘里丢了几十个高尔夫球。

Beyond the gate the road wound for a couple of hundred yards through trees and then suddenly below me was a small oval lake deep in trees and rocks and wild grass, like a drop of dew caught in a curled leaf.

过了大门，这条路穿过树林蜿蜒了两百码，然后突然在我脚下是一个椭圆形的小湖，深深地埋在树木、岩石和野草中，就像卷曲的叶子上的一滴露珠。