园艺，即园地栽培（gardenhusbandry），果树、蔬菜和观赏植物的栽培、繁育技术和生产经营方法。可相应地分为果树园艺、蔬菜园艺和观赏园艺。 相关词汇
dirt n. 土壤
flower n. 花卉
fork n.叉子
gardener n.园丁
gardening n.园艺
grow v.种植
lawn mower n.剪草机
plant n.植物
protect v.保护
pruning n.剪枝
rake n.耙
season n.季节
seed n.种子
shears n.园艺修剪刀
shovel n.铁铲
sickle n.镰刀
spade n.锄
sunlight n.阳光
water v. 浇水
weeding hoe 除草耙
情景对话:
A: Hello, Jason! What have you been up to?
B: I've been learning gardening from Mike, the gardener in our school.
A: Gardening?
B: Yeah. you know, I got a garden in front of my house. I wanted to plant something but I didn't know how. Mike happened to know that and offered to teach me. He'sreally nice.
A: Oh, wow, is it difficult?
B: Well, kind of. It took a pretty long time for me to get to know all the tools and how to use them.
A: So what kind of tools are there?
B: There are spade, shovel, rake, lawn mower, shears, sickle,weeding hoe, fork, and so on. At first, I couldn't even tellthem from each other. But now I can use most of them.
A: Wow. You are amazing. Then what else have you learned about gardening?
B: Well, I know there are many factors that affect the growth of the plants in the garden, like water, dirt,season and the sunlight. To protect the plants, you need to pay attention to all the factors.
A: Oh, God. That's really complicated. I'd rather play chess.I gotta go. See you. You just go ahead.
B: OK, see you.
参考译文:
A:你好，杰森!近你怎么样?
B:我近一直在向我们学校的园丁迈克学习园艺呐。
A:园艺?
B:是啊.你知道的，我房前有一个花园。我想种点东西，但是我之前不知道怎么弄。迈克碰巧知道了，而且还主动帮我。他人真好。
A:哦，哇。那很难吗?
B:有点。认清那些工具和它们的用途花了我很长一段时间。
A:都有什么样的工具啊?
B:有锄头、铁锹、耙子、剪草机、园艺修剪刀、镶刀、锄草耙、叉子等。刚开始，我根本就分不清楚。但是现在我大部分都会使用了。
A:哇。你真棒。那你还学了些什么呢?
B:我知道有很多因素影响植物的生长，比如说水、土壤、季节，还有阳光等。为了保护植物的生长，你需要注意所有的影响因素。
A:噢，天呐。真是复杂.我宁愿下象棋。我走了。再见，你忙吧。
B:好，再见。
