广播电视英语短句 第 72 课：减少农业用水量-2

He leads Team Drought, a group of researchers at five universities. 卡特带领着由5所大学研究者组成的干旱研究小组。

They have been using conventional breeding methods to develop soybeans that can grow well under dry conditions. 他们一直在使用传统育种方法培育可以在干旱条件下生长的大豆。

Tommy Carter started working on drought-resistant soybeans in nineteen eighty-one. 汤米卡特早在1981年就开始致力于抗旱大豆的研究了。

His research has taken him as far as China, where soybeans have been grown for thousands of years. 他的研究追溯到了中国，在这里大豆已经种植了几千年了。

Farmers in the United States, however, have grown soybeans for only about a century. 然而在美国，农民仅仅种植了一个世纪大豆。