“随后三年中,我在美国加州植物研究所培育了另外三粒种子,但是它们都没有开花--很明显,我使用的方法不当。”申女士回忆往事说,“后来好像很幸运,这两粒种子都开花了,就是现在你们看到的这两棵,其中一棵的年龄是408岁,另一棵则是466岁。”
"Over the next three years, I grew three more seeds at the California Institute of Botany, but they didn't bloom - obviously, I didn't use the right method." "Later, it seemed very lucky," Ms. Shen recalled, "that these two seeds have blossomed, which are the two you see now. One is 408 years old, the other is 466 years old."
尽管古莲开花了,但是它们与现代的莲花有许多不同,不能完全适应现代的环境。“我正在想尽一切办法,使它们能够茁壮成长。”
Although the ancient lotus flowers, they are different from the modern lotus and can not fully adapt to the modern environment. "I'm doing everything I can to make them thrive."
据申女士介绍,莲花能够如此长寿,应该有其特别的原因;如果能发现莲花长寿的内在机制,人类将会受益匪浅,例如可以解决粮食储存问题,减少世界饥饿人口,还有可能延长人类的寿命。
According to Ms. Shen, there should be a special reason why Lotus can live such a long life. If we can find the internal mechanism of lotus's longevity, human beings will benefit a lot, such as solving the problem of food storage, reducing the world's hungry population, and possibly extending human life.
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