Maize quickly became one of the cheapest animal feeds worldwide.

玉蜀黍很快变成全世界 最便宜的动物饲料。

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

许多依靠在附近的玉米园工作或把玉蜀黍弄成面粉煮粥过活。

Deandre Jordan look like that uncle at a cookout that stick his fork in ya plate.

德安德鲁·乔丹长得像是那种野餐时会把叉子伸到盘子里的怪蜀黍。

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

或是一根玉蜀黍化妆成一只狗。

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

出售绿的果，绿的爆玉蜀黍，还有各种各样的绿鞋子、绿帽子和绿衣衫。

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

传统的玛雅以及他的后，包括阿芝特，会以巧力作为饮料，加入水或辣椒，甚至是加玉蜀黍使变稠。

Sounds great! I'm in! Hold on. Just because the nice man is offering you candy, doesn't mean you should jump into his windowless van.

听起来很赞啊 我去 慢着 就因为一位怪蜀黍给吃 并不意味着就应该跳进贩子的破车里。

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.

万物开始孕育长。第一次，绿色的玉蜀黍开始显现。它穿过土壤，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，类历史上最重要的谷物之一——玉米（又称玉蜀黍）最初是在这种理想的环境中诞的，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.

我要感谢的事有很多。不到一年前，除了少量的玉蜀黍外，我什么也吃不到，而且我担心连玉蜀黍会很快吃完。

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。

There was once a time when every gym had an army of energy-bar-munching zombies, convinced that they would get six-pack abs, tighter buns, and sweeter pecs if they just supplemented their routine with a PowerBar.

曾经有段时间，每个健身房有一群咀嚼能量棒的“怪蜀黍”，坚信自己能拥有六块腹肌，紧实的臀部和迷的胸肌，只要每日补充能量棒就好。

If turning aurochs into cattle, wolves into dogs or teosinte into maize sounds like a sideshow compared with transforming the composition of the atmosphere, looting the oceans or destroying the rainforests, consider a few facts.

如果说，与改变大气成分、掠夺海洋或破坏雨林相比，把古代野牛变成家牛、把狼变成狗或者把墨西哥类蜀黍变成玉米这种事听起来无关紧要，请仔细思考几个事实。

For teosinte to become a useful crop, it had to undergo drastic changes in its reproductive biology, to increase greatly its investment in seeds, and to lose those rock-like coverings of its seeds.

为了使类蜀黍成为一种有用的作物，它的繁殖物学必须经历巨大的变化，大大增加对种子的投资，并失去种子上那些岩石般的覆盖物。

That contrast between the immediate virtues of wheat and barley and the difficulties posed by teosinte may have been a significant factor in the differing developments of New World and Eurasian human societies.

小麦和大麦的直接优点与类蜀黍带来的困难之间的对比可能是新世界和欧亚类社会不同发展的一个重要因素。

Corn's probable ancestor, a wild plant known as teosinte, looks so different from corn in its seed and flower structures that even its role as ancestor has been hotly debated by botanists for a long time.

玉米的可能祖先是一种被称为类蜀黍的野植物，其种子和花的结构与玉米非常不同，甚至它作为祖先的角色长期以来一直受到植物学家的激烈争论。

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。让我从通常所说的北美玉米或玉蜀黍开始。