广播电视英语短句 第 4 课：降低浇灌量的农作物-2

He leads Team Drought, a group of researchers at five universities. 他领导了一个干旱小组，这个小组由来自五所大学的研究人员组成。

They have been using conventional breeding methods to develop and test soybeans that can grow well under dry conditions. 他们一直使用传统的方法来改进和测试一种能在干旱条件下健康生长的大豆。

Tommy Carter started working on drought-resistant soybeans in nineteen eighty-one. 早在1981年就开始研究抗旱大豆了。

His research has taken him as far as China, where soybeans have been grown for thousands of years. Tommy Carter 他的研究使他远道来到中国，这里种大豆的历史已有几千年了。

Farmers in the United States, however, have grown soybeans for only about a century. 而美国的农民种抗旱大豆的历史仅有一百来年。