1·By 2007, almost half of California's raisins were mechanically harvested and a labour force once numbering 50,000 had shrunk to 30,000.
到2007年，加州几乎一半的葡萄干都是用机械收割的，劳动力人数也从原来的5万人缩减到了3万人。
2·These would be harvested and placed into plastic "stomachs" - essentially large plastic bags - suspended in the sea.
这些巨藻会被收割并被放置到悬浮在海水里的塑料“胃”中——实质是巨大的塑料袋。
3·"Monument to the Plow" called for a triangular site a mile wide on each side to be planted with seasonal crops on rotation: ploughed, sown, harvested, ploughed, etc.
《犁的纪念碑》形为一三角状地块，每边宽一英里，以轮作方式在每个边种植季节性作物，象征翻耕，播种，收割，翻耕的循环。
4·In 1950 only one percent of the cotton grown in the South (excluding Texas and Oklahoma) was machine harvested. By 1959 the figure was 25 percent; by 1969, 94 percent.
1950年，南方(不包括得克萨斯州和俄克拉荷马州)只有1%的棉花是用机器收割的，到1959年，这个数字为25%，1969年则是94%。
5·However, in 2010, the crops that could be salvaged had been harvested, and the rest had turned brown.
然而在2010年，可以挽救的作物已经被收割，其余的则已变成褐色。