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THE STORY OF BREAD
面包的故事
Alice Thompson Paine
作者：愛(ài)麗絲·湯普森·潘恩
All over the world people are eating bread—rye bread, corn bread, wheat bread, rice bread, even oat bread. We may call bread the most important food in the world. Thousands of people are busy every day making it for us, and wonderful machines have been invented to help them make enough for the great hungry mouth of the world.
全世界的人都在吃面包——黑麥面包、玉米面包、小麥面包、米面包，甚至燕麥面包。每天都有成千上萬(wàn)的人忙著為我們制作，人們發(fā)明了奇妙的機(jī)器來(lái)幫助他們?yōu)槭澜缟橡囸I的人們制造足夠的食物。
When the Swiss Family Robinson were cast away on a desert island, do you remember how they made bread? They dug roots and ground them to a pulp. Then, after squeezing out the juice, they made the pulp into little flat cakes, which they baked. When they did this, they were making bread in the very same way that it was made away I back in the beginning of things. Nobody knows when people first began to make bread, but it was probably the first thing that primitive men and women cooked for themselves after they passed the first rude stages of eating raw meat and fish, or berries and roots.
當(dāng)瑞士羅賓遜家族流落荒島時(shí)，你還記得他們是怎么做面包的嗎？他們挖了根，把它們磨成漿。然后，在榨出果汁后，他們把果肉做成扁平的小蛋糕，然后烘烤。當(dāng)他們這樣做的時(shí)候，他們正在做面包，就像最開(kāi)始的時(shí)候做面包一樣。沒(méi)有人知道人們最初是什么時(shí)候開(kāi)始做面包的，但這可能是原始人類在吃生肉、生魚、漿果和樹根的最初階段之后，為自己做的第一件東西。
