Maize quickly became one of the cheapest animal feeds worldwide.

黍很快变成全世界 最便宜的动饲料。

Many survive by working in nearby maize gardens or turning maize husks into flour for cooking porridge.

许多人依靠在附近的米园工作或黍弄成面粉煮粥过活。

Or as a big ear of corn in doggie make-up.

或是一根黍化妆成一只狗。

Green candy and green pop corn were offered for sale, as well as green shoes, green hats, and green clothes of all sorts.

出售绿的糖果，绿的爆黍，还有各种各样的绿鞋、绿帽和绿衣衫。

The classic Mayans and their successors, including the Aztecs, consumed chocolate, usually as a drink, with water and perhaps chilli, or thickened with maize.

传统的玛雅人以及他们的后人，包括阿芝特克人，都会以巧克力作为饮料，加入水或辣椒，甚至是加黍使变稠。

Things started to grow and come up. For the first time, green corn plants began to show. They pushed through the soil and could now be seen above the ground.

万孕育生长。第一次，绿色的黍显现。它们穿过土壤，现在已经长到地面以上了。

And that's why it shouldn't come as a surprise that one of the most important grains in human history originally arose within this ideal environment — maize, otherwise known as corn.

因此，人类历史上最重要的谷之一——米（又称黍）最初是在这种理想的环境中诞生的，就一点也不足为奇了。

Father. We have much to be thankful for. Less than a year ago we had nothing to eat except our small supply of Indian corn, and were afraid that even that would soon be gone.

我们要感谢的事有很多。不到一年前，除了少量的黍外，我们什么也吃不到，而且我们担心连黍都会很快吃完。

Professor：But have they really played any kind of important role in European history? Well, as a matter of fact, yes. I was just coming to that. Let’s start with North American corn or maize, as it’s often called.

教授：但是他们真的在欧洲历史上扮演过什么重要的角色吗？嗯，事实上，是的。我正要谈到这一点。让我们从通常所说的北美米或黍。