It's believed that eating taro on this day will bring good luck and wealth.

人们相信在这天吃芋会带来好运和财富。

Almost every square metre of the island is cultivated to grow staple crops like taro or breadfruit.

几乎岛上每平方米都耕种栽培着像芋和之类的庄稼。

He went to meet fresh and learned how to cook taro jelly and ube.

他去见新鲜的, 学会了如何烹饪芋冻和乌贝。

For example, in the local southern Chinese dialect, taro sounds similar to 'the coming of good fortune'.

例如，在中国南方方言中，芋的发音类似于“好运的到来”。

The root vegetables in here are taro, batata, and parsnip.

这里的根茎类蔬菜是芋、红薯和防风草。

Specifically, I had a taro tea with tapioca pearls in it.

具体来说，我喝了杯芋茶，里有木薯珍珠。

Yeah it tastes like super sweet to me. Wait, this tastes like taro.

是的，我觉得超级甜。等等，这尝起来像芋。

The first I clicked on, the Danag, was a Filipino vampire supposedly responsible for planting taro on the islands long ago.

我首先点开了“丹拿”，这是种菲律宾的吸血鬼，很多年以前是负责在岛上种植芋的。

" If someone wants to build a mega taro that's 50 floors, we make an agreement like maybe 20 of them have to be low-income housing" .

" 如有人想建造50层的摩天大楼，我们会与其达成协议，其中20层必须是保障性住房。"

They were also pioneers who carried with them everything they would need to build new lives—their livestock, taro seedlings and stone tools.

他们也是开拓者，随身携带了建立新生活所需的切——牲畜、芋幼苗和石器。

From Hanalei Valley Lookout, gaze down at one of the lushest valleys on the planet, where the heart-shaped leaves of taro rise from a patchwork of flooded fields.

登上哈纳莱伊山谷了望台，俯瞰世上最郁葱的峡谷，瞥心形芋叶从块块水田当中来。

For an old-school slice of Island life, hang out at Hanapepe, whose swinging bridge has been swaying under the footsteps of local taro farmers for over a century.

如想体验传统岛屿生活，不妨前往哈纳佩佩，这里的吊桥已有逾百年的历史，支撑着当地芋农往返的日常生活。

In the Middle East-as we saw in the last programme-it was wheat and barley; in China millet and rice; in Papua New Guinea taro; and in Africa sorghum.

在中东，我们在上期节目中已经看到的，现的是小麦和大麦；在中国，小米和大米；在巴布亚新几内亚是芋；在非洲是高粱。

And we went into the poisonous giant tubers, like the yam and the taro, which also had to be leeched, ground up and cooked before we could eat them.

我们也寻找到了那些带有毒性的、个颇大的块茎，像山药、芋，这些在食用之前得经过榨取、提炼和烹饪。

Although the Polynesians had brought some of their own plants, like the coconut and the paper mulberry tree, the Hawaiian diet was based on the taro plant, yams, and marine animals.

虽然波利尼西亚人带来了些他们自己的植物，如椰子和纸桑树，但夏威夷人的饮食以芋植物、山药和海洋动物为主。

Manioc (alias cassava) and sweet potato became staples in tropical South America, potato and oca in the Andes, African yams in Africa, and Indo-Pacific yams and taro in Southeast Asia and New Guinea.

木薯（又名木薯）和红薯成为南美洲热带地区的主食，安第斯山脉地区的马铃薯和酢浆草，非洲的非洲山药，以及东南亚和新几内亚的印度洋-太平洋山药和芋。

Other crops of undoubted New Guinea origin are a group of bananas known as Australimusabananas, the nut tree Canarium indicum, and giant swamp taro, as well as various edible grass stems, roots, and green vegetables.

其他毫无疑问起源于新几内亚的作物括被称为澳大利亚香蕉的香蕉、坚树 Canarium indicum 和巨型沼泽芋，以及各种可食用的草茎、根和绿色蔬菜。

A taro or maybe some beet… just a little bit… I don't know, but we would… again, the hot cross bun, it could… and we… of course we'd do one for those who practice Good Friday.

只是点点… … 我不知道，但我们会… … 再次，热十字， 它可以… … 我们… … 当然我们会为那些练习耶稣受难日的人做个。

Compared with taro and other presumably older New Guinea root crops, the sweet potato can be grown up to higher elevations, grows more quickly, and gives higher yields per acre cultivated and per hour of labor.

与芋和其他可能较古老的新几内亚块根作物相比，甘薯可以种植到更高的海拔，生长更快，并且每英亩耕地和每小时劳动的产量更高。

Within 1,600 years that resulting package of crops (including bananas, taro, and yams) and domestic animals (chickens, pigs, and dogs) had spread more than 5,000 miles eastward into the tropical Pacific to reach the islands of Polynesia.

在 1,600 年内，由此产生的农作物（括香蕉、芋和山药）和家畜（鸡、猪和狗）向东传播了 5,000 多英里，进入热带太平洋，到达波利尼西亚群岛。