ShiitakeLove Caffeine
一群蚯蚓在一大堆有机垃圾中费劲地钻来钻去。
A group of earthworms is working its way
through a pile of organic waste.
一大堆有机垃圾
A pile of organic waste
我需要休息！
I need a rest!
“我需要休息！”蚯蚓爸爸尖声说，“但我还是觉得精力旺盛，十分亢奋!”
“我也是。”一千个蚯蚓宝宝异口同声地说，他们全都是上个月出生的。
‘Ineed a rest!” screams the old earthworm,“but I still feel so energized, so hyper!”
“I feel the same,” say its 1,000 babies (who were all born last month) in chorus.
“我们该怎么告诉那些人，不要把咖啡渣和茶叶渣倒在有机垃圾里？”蚯蚓爸爸轻声念叨。
‘How can we ever tell these people not to throw coffee or tea on the compost heap?”whispers the father earthworm.
我们该怎么告诉那些人?
How can we ever tell
these people?
我没听错吧？
What do I hear?
“是啊，他们不喜欢睡觉前喝咖啡，为什么却要把咖啡因全部甩到我们脸上呢，我受不了啦！”最小的蚯蚓宝宝说。
“哎哟哎哟，我没听错吧？”香菇好奇地插嘴，“咖啡因太多会让你们受不了吗？”
‘Right, they do not like to drink coffee before they go to bed, so why do they throw all this caffeine in our face? I am stressed out!”says the youngest of the colony.
“Well, well, what do I hear?” wonders the shiitake mushroom. “Are you all suffering from too much caffeine?”
“你看，这些人懂得，就算咖啡因像蛋白质一样营养丰富，他们也不能用含有咖啡因的饲料来喂牛，不然的话，奶牛会感到紧张，产奶量也会变少。”
“是不是因为你们不产奶，所以人们不知道咖啡因会给你们带来麻烦呢？”
‘You see, these people have learned they cannot feed it to cattle, even when it is rich in nutrients, like protein, otherwise, the cows get stressed, and give less milk.”
“And since you do not give milk, people do not know that it bothers you?”
奶牛会感到紧张！
The cows get stressed!
真是一份很辛苦的工作啊……
It is quite a job...
“唉，他们不了解我们的感受。每天要吃掉并且消化掉相当于自身重量的食物，真是一份很辛苦的工作啊。”
‘Well, they do not know what we are going through, but having to eat and digest your own weight every day is quite a job.”
“我能帮上忙！”香菇说，“我可以在这里生长，从咖啡因中得到我所需的能量。”
“什么？咖啡因不会让你感到紧张吗？”
“不会的，实际上咖啡因越多对我越好。咖啡因帮助我生长，而我把咖啡因转变成其他生物的食物。这样你们就能吃掉所有的有机废物而不会感到紧张。即便是奶牛也能放心地吃我提供的食物！”
“哇，太棒了！但这是怎么做到的呢？”
‘I can help,” says the shiitake.“I can grow here and get my energy from the caffeine.”
“What? You do not get stressed from caffeine?”“No, actually, the more caffeine there is, the better for me. I use it to grow and convert the caffeine into food for others. You will be able to eat all the organic waste and not get stressed. Even cattle would be able to eat it!”
“Wow! That would be so great! But how does this work?”
我能帮上忙！
I can help!
我们分别属于三个不同的生物王国
We belong to three different kingdoms
“你是动物，咖啡是植物，我是菌类，我们分别属于三个不同的生物王国。”
“我知道，虽然我们没有腿，也没有视力，我们仍然属于动物王国。”蚯蚓说。
“所以，咖啡因让动物不舒服，但有些菌类能在任何植物纤维上生长，即使这种纤维含有咖啡因。然后我们会产生含有丰富蛋白质的‘废物’，里面却没有咖啡因了。”
‘You are an animal, coffee is a plant, and I am a fungus, and we belong to three different kingdoms.”
“I know that even though we do not have legs, and we are blind, we belong to the Animal Kingdom,” says the earthworm.
“So, animals suffer from caffeine, but some fungi can live with any fiber even if it includes caffeine. Then we produce waste, rich in protein, with no more caffeine.”
“太棒了！你们菌类为我们提供可以吃的食物，我们蚯蚓给植物制作食物，而牛则吃植物。不同的物种在一起工作，这样谁都不会感到紧张了。”
……这仅仅是开始！……
‘That’s great! You fungi make the food that we eat, we earthworms prepare food for plants, and the cattle eat the plants! Everyone works together and this way no one gets stressed.”
...AND IT HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN! ...
……这仅仅是开始！……
... AND IT HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN! ...
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