四级Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago.

野生胡萝卜大概在3.6亿年前和其他开花植物一起进化而来。

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四级Along with old classics like "carrots give you night vision" and "Santa doesn't bring toys to misbehaving children", one of the most well-worn phrases of tired parents everywhere is that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

除了“胡萝卜让你夜视”和“圣诞老人不会给行为不端的孩子带玩具”等古老经典之外，各地疲惫的父母最常说的一句话就是早餐是一天中最重要的一餐。

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四级That’s why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.

这就是为什么同样来自中亚的马如此喜欢苹果和胡萝卜。

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四级In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.

在17世纪，中国人用胡萝卜当药，但他们也吃汤煮的胡萝卜。

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高考The groundhog still didn't have a problem with me scratching her back, and I got an ides, I'd always thought, while slicing up carrots, that the end looked like a cap.

土拨鼠仍然不介意我挠她的背，我得到了一个IDE，我一直认为，在切胡萝卜的时候，末端看起来像一顶帽子。

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四级With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

野生胡萝卜的根又白又小又细，所以你必须采很多野生胡萝卜才能吃得下。

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四级Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia.

和苹果一样，胡萝卜原产于中亚。

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四级Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.

医生们用胡萝卜籽和胡萝卜根作为药物，他们的理论是味道不好的食物一定对你有好处。

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高考Last October, while tending her garden in mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw them away.

去年10月，在瑞典莫拉照料花园时，莉娜·帕尔森拿出一把小胡萝卜，准备扔掉。

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高考I carefully extended a long carrot, with a keen eye on those teeth, and before long, there were times I would have the groundhog sitting next to a rabbit, both munching on carrots.

我小心翼翼地伸出一根长长的胡萝卜，目光敏锐地盯着那些牙齿。不久，我就让土拨鼠坐在一只兔子旁边，两只兔子都在嚼胡萝卜。

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四级But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.

但是胡萝卜在两次世界大战期间得到了最大的促进作用，当时粮食短缺迫使人们食用胡萝卜，政府告诉每个人胡萝卜是多么健康。

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四级But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.

但人们仍然主要用胡萝卜喂马、驴和猪，自己也不吃。

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高考Dad pulled out a pressure cooker and filled it up with cabbages, eggplants, potatoes, corns, onions and carrots.

爸爸拿出一个高压锅，里面装满了卷心菜、茄子、土豆、玉米、洋葱和胡萝卜。

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高考When I threw carrot slices, they even came for a nibble.

当我扔胡萝卜片时，它们甚至来咬我一口。

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四级Today, cooler countries grow most of the world’s carrots.

如今，气候凉爽的国家种植了世界上大部分的胡萝卜。

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四级Then in the late 1500s,food scientists in the Netherlands cultivated large, straight, sweet, red carrots like the ones we eat today.

然后在16世纪末，荷兰的食品科学家种植了大的、直的、甜的、红色的胡萝卜，就像我们今天吃的胡萝卜一样。

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四级Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.

大部分的种植和采摘都由机器完成，胡萝卜很容易储存和运输。

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考研with them, there's not the same embarrassment as when buying one carrot in a little greengrocer.

有了它们，就不会像在蔬菜水果店里买一根胡萝卜那样尴尬了。

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四级Along with old classics like “carrots give you night vision” and “Santa doesn’t bring toys to misbehaving children”, one of the most well-worn phrases of tired parents everywhere is that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

除了“胡萝卜能让你夜视”和“圣诞老人不会给行为不端的孩子带玩具”等古老经典之外，各地疲惫的父母最常说的一句话是早餐是一天中最重要的一餐。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）