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现代大学英语精读:Lesson7B第2期

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It is not only pleasure sending me back to stare at that plot of soil, it is really conflict. The question is the same each year—what method should we use? The last few years we put 36-inch-wide black plastic between the rows, and it worked perfectly, keeping the soil moist in dry times and weed-free.
But black plastic looks so industrial, so unromantic, that I have gradually moved over to hay mulch. We cut a lot of hay and, as it rots, it does improve the soil's Composition. Besides, it looks lovely, and comes to us free.
Keeping a garden makes you aware of how delicate, bountiful, and easily ruined the surface of this little planet is. In that 50-by-70-foot patch there must be a dozen different types of soil. Tomato won't grow in one part but loves another, and the same goes for the other crops. I suppose if you loaded the soil with chemical fertilizer these differences would be less noticeable, but I use it sparingly and only in rows right where seeds are planted rather than broadcast over the whole area. I'm not sure why I do this beyond the saving in fertilizer and my unwillingness to aid the weeds.
The attractions of gardening, I think, at least for a certain number of gardeners, are neurotic and moral. Whenever life seems pointless and difficult to grasp, you can always get out in the garden and get something done. Also, your paternal or maternal instincts come into play because helpless living things are depending on you, require training and encouragement and protection from enemies. In some cases, as with beans and cucumbers, your children—as it were—begin to turn upon you in massive numbers, growing more and more each morning and threatening to follow you into the house to strangle you in their vines.

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fertilizer ['fə:tilaizə]

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n. 肥料

 
noticeable ['nəutisəbl]

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adj. 显而易见的

 
conflict ['kɔnflikt]

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n. 冲突,矛盾,斗争,战斗
vi. 冲突,争

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encouragement [in'kʌridʒmənt]

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n. 鼓励

 
mulch [mʌltʃ]

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n. 覆盖物,护盖物;护根 vt. 做护根;以护盖物覆盖

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unwillingness [ʌn'wiliŋnis]

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n. 不愿意;不情愿

 
planet ['plænit]

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n. 行星

 
patch [pætʃ]

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n. 补丁,小片
vt. 修补,补缀

 
stare [steə(r)]

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v. 凝视,盯着看
n. 凝视

 
hay [hei]

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n. 干草

 


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