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Hi，我是新海，一個正在備戰的考研人。
最近需要進行大量的考研專項閱讀，於是萌生了一個翻譯計劃，準備翻譯1986——2018年所有閱讀，通過大量的閱讀訓練來熟悉考研單詞，短語以及語法，更深刻理解考研閱讀。

下面是我的第22篇，所有中文釋義，均是由本人整理翻譯，當然也有不夠完善的地方，歡迎大家評論補充。

Most growing plants contain much more water than all other materials combined.
大多數生長的植物含有的水比所有其他物質的總和都要多。
C. R. Darnes has suggested that it is as proper to term the plant a water structure as to call a house composed mainly of brick – a brick building.
C.R.達恩斯建議，把這種植物稱之為水結構就像稱之為主要由磚砌成的房子一樣恰當——磚砌建築。
Certain it is that all essential processes of plant growth and development occur in water. The mineral elements from the soil that are usable by the plant must be dissolved in the soil solution before they can be taken into the root. They are carried to all parts of the growing plant and are built into essential plant materials while in a dissolved state.
可以肯定的是，植物生長髮育的所有基本過程都發生在水中。植物可以利用的來自土壤的礦物元素必須先溶解在土壤溶液中，然後才能進入根部。它們被運送到生長植物的所有部分，並在溶解狀態下被構建成必需的植物材料。
The carbon dioxide from the air may enter the leaf as a gas but is dissolved in water in the leaf before it is combined with a part of the water to form simple sugars – the base material from which the plant body is mainly built.
來自空氣中的二氧化碳可能以氣體的形式進入葉子，但在與部分水結合形成簡單糖之前，它被溶解在葉子中的水中，而簡單糖是植物主體的主要構成材料。
Actively growing plant parts are generally 75 to 90 percent water. Structural parts of plants, such as woody stems no longer actively growing, may have much less water than growing tissues.
積極生長的植物部分通常是75到90%的水。植物的結構部分，例如木質莖不再活躍地生長，可能比生長中的組織含有更少的水分。

重點詞彙

• other materials其他材料
• water structure水結構
• brick building磚砌建築
• mineral elements礦質元素
• soil solution土壤溶液
• essential plant芳香植物
• dissolved state溶解狀態
• carbon dioxide二氧化碳
• combined with化合，聯合; 連同
• base material基材; 母材

The actual amount of water in the plant at any one time, however, is only a very small part of what passes through it during its development.
然而，在任何時候，植物中的實際水量只是在其發育過程中流經植物的很小一部分。
The processes of photosynthesis, by which carbon dioxide and water are combined – in the presence of chlorophyll (葉綠素) and with energy derived from light – to form sugars, require that carbon dioxide from the air enter the plant. This occurs mainly in the leaves.
光合作用過程中，二氧化碳和水在葉綠素（葉綠素）存在下，與來自光的能量結合，形成糖，需要空氣中的二氧化碳進入植物。這主要發生在葉子上。
The leaf surface is not solid but contains great numbers of minute openings, through which the carbon dioxide enters.
葉子表面不結實，但含有大量的微小開口，二氧化碳通過該開口進入。
The same structure that permits the one gas to enter the leaf, however, permits another gas – water vapor – to be lost from it.
然而，允許一種氣體進入葉子的相同結構允許另一種氣體——水蒸氣——從葉子中消失。
Since carbon dioxide is present in the air only in trace quantities (3 to 4 parts in 10,000 parts of air) and water vapor is near saturation in the air spaces within the leaf (at 80F, saturated air would contain about 186 parts of water vapor in 10,000 parts of air), the total amount of water vapor lost is many times the carbon dioxide intake.
由於空氣中二氧化碳僅以微量存在(10000份空氣中3至4份)，並且葉內的空氣空間中的水蒸氣接近飽和(在80F，10000份空氣中飽和空氣將包含約186份水蒸氣)，因此水蒸氣的總量就是水蒸氣的總量。損失是二氧化碳吸收的很多倍。
Actually, because of wind and other factors, the loss of water in proportion to carbon dioxide intake may be even greater than the relative concentrations of the two gases. Also, not all of the carbon dioxide that enters the leaf is synthesized into carbohydrates (碳水化合物).
實際上，由於風和其他因素，水的損失與二氧化碳攝取量的比例可能甚至大於兩種氣體的相對濃度。而且，並非所有進入葉片的二氧化碳都合成為碳水化合物。

重點詞彙

• actual amount實際金額
• very small眇；小不點兒；藐；芾
• carbon dioxide二氧化碳
• in the presence of在面前
• derived from採自
• leaf surface葉面
• great numbers大數
• water vapor水汽
• in the air懸而未決; 傳開， 流行開來; 半空中; 空際
• parts of部分

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作者：新海
12月6日晚