爱尔兰

The fungus blamed for the Irish Potato Famine was no the culprit after all.

被认为造成爱尔兰马铃薯荒的那种真菌，其实并不是罪魁祸首。

I'm depressed about that Irish potato famine.

爱尔兰马铃薯饥荒令我很沮丧

He said he would split open a raw Irish potato and stick the quarter in between and keep it there all night, and next morning you couldn't see no brass, and it wouldn't feel greasy no more, and so anybody in town would take it in a minute, let alone a hair-ball.

他说他可以把一块爱尔兰土豆掰开，把伪币夹在当中间，这样放一个晚上，第二天早上，你就看不见铜的影子了，也不会滑腻腻的了。镇上的人谁都会一眼就收下它，不只是毛球会收。

The danger of such dependency was starkly revealed by the Irish potato famine of 1845: at least a million people died, and another million emigrated.

爱尔兰迅猛增长的人口几乎全部依赖于马铃薯。1845年爆发的马铃薯灾荒赤裸裸的暴露了这种过度依赖所造成的危害：至少一百万人死亡，还有一百万人不得不背井离乡。

Historically, both the 19th century Irish Potato Famine and the Bengal Famine, in India, are hard lessons in what happens when we rely too much on a small range of species that are hit by disease.

从历史看来，无论是爱尔兰的土豆饥荒，还是印度的孟加拉饥荒都是惨痛的教训：当我们依赖的作物种类过于单一的时候，这些作为容易受到病害而导致饥荒。

The nineteenth century saw the food supply improve, prices decline, and famine and malnutrition virtually disappear from Europe (except for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s).

在19世纪看食品供应改良，价格下跌，和饥荒以及营养不良实际上从欧洲消失了(除了1840年代爱尔兰马铃薯饥荒)。

The danger ofsuch dependency was starkly revealed by the Irish potato famine of1845: at least a million people died, and another million emigrated.

爱尔兰迅猛增长的人口几乎全部依赖于马铃薯。1845年爆发的马铃薯灾荒赤裸裸的暴露了这种过度依赖所造成的危害：至少一百万人死亡，还有一百万人不得不背井离乡。

The US President, Bill Clinton, apologized for medical experiments which his government carried out on black American men in the 1930s; the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, apologized for Britain's failure to help victims of the Irish potato famine, which killed over a million people last century;and French Catholic Bishops apologized for the role of their predecessors during World War II.

美国总统比尔克林顿为本世纪30年代美国政府在美国黑人身上进行医学实验而道歉：英国首相托里布莱尔为上一世纪英国在爱尔兰因土豆枯萎而引发的饥荒中没有帮助受灾的饥民而道歉，这次饥荒使一百多万人丧生；法国天主教的主教们为他们的前任在二战中的表现而道歉。

Scientists at Cornell University recently borrowed a gene from a South American potato to make potatoes that resisted the late blight fungus, a devastating disease that caused the Irish potato famine.

最近，康奈尔大学的科学家从南美洲马铃薯中提取了一种基因，改良成一种能抵御晚疫病菌的马铃薯。正是这种毁灭性疾病导致了爱尔兰的马铃薯饥荒。

About the Irish potato famine?

却大谈爱尔兰马铃薯饥荒？

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。