丰田推出神奇新型电动车，发出的噪音能让植物生长？_BEC初级作文

丰田推出神奇新型电动车，发出的噪音能让植物生长？

乌拉圭的丰田汽车独立制造商和经销商Ayax和数字创新机构The Electric Factory公司合作，这家公司设计声音，也是“智能城市专家”。他们不是仅仅安装模仿非电动汽车的声音，而是要创造出一种他们认为能进一步保护环境的声音。

Called the HY Project (short for “harmony”), the sound is inspired by several amusing studies that have looked into the effects of audio frequencies on plants.

这种声音被称为HY项目（是单词“harmony和谐”的缩写），灵感来自几个有趣的研究，它们研究了音频频率对植物的影响。

In one out of India, researchers placed mung bean plants in soundproof chambers, one of which remained silent, another which had ancient chants piped in, and a third which scolded the beans with “discouraging words.”

在印度的一项研究中研究人员把绿豆放在隔音室里，其中一间保持安静，另外一间演奏古老的圣歌，还有一间用“令人沮丧的话”责骂豆子。

The chanted-to plants saw the “maximum elongation of the shoot,” showing, the scientists claim, that the mung beans picked up the audio vibrations.

听圣歌的绿豆“豆芽长得最长”，科学家说这表明绿豆接收了声音的震动。

In another, South Korea researchers compared different types of plants’ responses to a variety of frequencies and magnitudes, noting reactions like root-tip bending, an increase in the expression of “defense-related genes,” and a higher yield for crops from cotton to rice to tomatoes.