首页
登录
职称英语
The conquering Europeans displaced the Aborigines, killing many, driving oth
The conquering Europeans displaced the Aborigines, killing many, driving oth
游客
2023-10-14
62
管理
问题
The conquering Europeans displaced the Aborigines, killing many, driving others from their traditional tribal lands, and eventually settling many of the tribal remnants on government reserves, where flour and beef replaced nardoo and wallaby as staple foods. And so, gradually, the vast store of knowledge, accumulated over thousands of years, fell into disuse. Much was lost.
However, a few European men took an intelligent and even respectful interest in the people who were being displaced. Explorers, missionaries, botanists, naturalists and government officials observed, recorded and fortunately in some cases, published. Today, we can draw on these publications to form the main basis of our knowledge of the edible, natural products of Australia. The picture is no doubt mostly incomplete. We can only speculate on the number of edible plants on which no observation was recorded. Not all our information on the subject comes from the Aborigines, Times were hard in the early days of European settlement, and traditional foods were often in short supply or impossibly expensive for a pioneer trying to establish a farm in the bush. And so necessity led to experimentation, just as it must have done for the Aborigines, and experimentation led to some lucky results. So far as is known, the Aborigines made no use of Leptospermum or Dodonaea as food plants, yet the ear-ly settlers found that one could be used as a substitute for tea and the other for hops. These plants are not closely related to the species they replaced, so their use was not based on botanical observation. Probably some experiments had less happy endings; L. J. Webb has used the expression eat, die and learn in connection with the Aboriginal experimentation, but it was the successful attempts that became widely known. It is possible that the edibility of some native plants used by the Aborigines was discovered independently by the European settlers or their descendants.
Explorers making long expeditions found it impossible to carry sufficient food for the whole journey and were forced to rely, in part, on food that they could find on the way. Still another source of information comes from the practice in other countries. There are many species from northern Australia which occur also in Southeast Asia, where they are used for food.
In general, those Aborigines living in the dry inland areas were largely dependent for their vegetable foods on seed such as those of grasses, acacias and eucalypts. They ground these seeds between flat stones to make coarse flour. Tribes on the coast, and particularly those in the vicinity of coastal rainforests, had a more varied vegetable diet with a higher proportion of fruits and tubers. Some of the coastal plants, even if they had grown inland, probably would have been unavailable as food since they required prolonged washing or soaking to render them non-poisonous; many of the inland tribes could not obtain water in the quantities necessary for such treatment. There was also considerable variation in the edible plants available to Aborigines in different latitudes. In general, the people who lived in the moist tropical areas enjoyed a much greater variety, than those in the southern part of Australia. [br] Both the early European settlers and the Aborigines had to______about natural products of Australia.
选项
答案
do experimentation
解析
(文章第三段提到早期的殖民开拓者到澳洲时,条件恶劣,食物短缺且价格极高,他们不得不尝试着吃本地的自然产物,土地居民也是如此。)
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3095920.html
相关试题推荐
ForgetLondon,ParisandMilan.ThelatestplaceforfashionableEuropeans
ForgetLondon,ParisandMilan.ThelatestplaceforfashionableEuropeans
ForgetLondon,ParisandMilan.ThelatestplaceforfashionableEuropeans
Womengivingbirthareoftenofferedacupunctureinsteadofpain-killingdrugs.分
Concentrationisoneofthemostimportantelementsindangerousdriving.dangero
[originaltext]M:IfIwereyou,I’dtakethebustowork.Drivinginthatrush-
—Ifeelsonervousaboutthedrivingtesttomorrow.—______A、Ireallyenvyyou.
—Ifeelsonervousaboutthedrivingtesttomorrow.—________.A、Ireallyenv
TheconqueringEuropeansdisplacedtheAborigines,killingmany,drivingoth
TheconqueringEuropeansdisplacedtheAborigines,killingmany,drivingoth
随机试题
Mr.Smithisgoingtothebigcitybytrain.[br]Mr.SmithlikedtotravelWith
Althoughthe"online"lifestylehasdominatedthemajorityofcityyouth,most
Modernmass-productionmethodslowerthecostofmakinggoods,andthusgive
[originaltext]W:Tony,you’dbettereatlessanddosomeexercise!Andthenyou
一般而言,一个地区的房地产需求增加,()A.会拉动另一地区的房地产供给增加
细菌是单细胞的微小原核生物,属于微生物的一大类,遍布于土壤、水、空气、有机体物质
反映企业在一定会计期间的经营成果的会计报表,是指()。A.附注 B.现金
以下对于文化传统与教育发展的关系的述说不正确的是( )A.文化传统影响和制约着
海关对有走私嫌疑的运输工具和有藏匿走私货物、物品嫌疑的场所行使检查权时( ).
关于建设工程合同承包人工程价款优先受偿权的说法,正确的是( )。A.承包人放弃
最新回复
(
0
)