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托福写作范文：植物学的起源

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2024-10-06 23:02

1、托福写作范文：植物学的起源Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors

2、knew about plants, but form what we can observe of pre- industrial societies that still exist a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient. This is logical. Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things even for other plants. They have always been eno

3、rmously important to the welfare of people not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shelter, and a great many other purposes. Tribes living today in the jungles of the Amazon recognize literally hundreds of plants and know many properties of each. To them, botany, a

4、s such, has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of knowledge at all.Unfortunately, the more industrialized we become the farther away we move from direct contact with plants, and the less distinct our knowledge of botany grows. Yet everyone comes unconsciously on an amazi

5、ng amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will fail to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid. When our Neolithic ancestors, living in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer yields the next season the fir

6、st great step in a new association of plants and humans was taken. Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of agriculture cultivated crops. From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a

7、 little there from many varieties that grew wild- and the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience and intimacy with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.植物学、植物的研究 , 在人类知识的历史中占据了特殊的地位。数千年来, 这是了解的领域之一 , 人类超越模糊的认知。今天是不可能知道什么我们石器时代的祖先知道植物 , 但形式我们能够观察到的前工业社会仍然存有植物及其特性的

8、详细了解应该是非常古老的。这是合乎逻辑的。植物食物金字塔的基础为所有生物甚至其他植物。他们一直非常重要人的福利不但对食物 , 也为服装、武器、工具、染料、药物、住所、和很多其他用途。今天在亚马逊的丛林部落生活确实能够辨识几百种植物并知道每一种的很多特性。 , 对他们来说 , 植物学没有名字 , 可能甚至根本不会被认为是“知识”的一个特殊分支。不幸的是 , 工业化的水准越高 , 我们越远我们从直接接触植物 , 和不同的我们的植物学知识的增加也就越少。不过每个人在不知不觉中拥有大量的植物学知识 , 和一些人将无法识别玫瑰 , 一个苹果 , 或者兰花。中东的新时代的祖先们生活在大约 10000年前 , 发现某些草能被收获 , 它们的种子下一季耕种