Ferl and other researchers planted thale cress, a small flowering plant, in moon soil returned from the Apollo missions.

菲尔和其他研究人员在阿波罗任务带回的月球土壤上种植了一种小型开花植物——鼠耳芥。

Water flows left and right. Of cress long here, short there.

参差荇菜，左右流之。

Feast friends at left and right. On cress cooked till tender!

参差荇菜，左右芼之。

Don't tell me with more water in it than cress?

别告诉我水多芹菜少？

Civil servants are grown like...like oak trees, not mustard and cress.

文官的成长就如橡树而不是芥末和水芹。

Other plants that are now growing on the moon are potatoes, rock cress and rapeseed.

其他种在月球的植物有土豆、筷子芥和油菜籽。

I learned how to grow cress out of cotton wool before learning how to comfort my parents.

在学会如何安慰我的父母之前，我先学会了如何用棉絮种植水芹。

Like cress seeds that grow into cress.

就像长成水芹的水芹种子。

The researchers then exposed Thale cress--the plant biologist's version of the laboratory mouse--to the recorded vibrations while no caterpillars were actually present.

然后，研究人员将塔勒水芹（植物生物学家的实验室小鼠版本）暴露在记录的振动中，而实际上并没有毛毛虫存在。

The Florida scientists hope to reuse their lunar soil later this year, planting more thale cress before possibly moving on to other plants.

佛罗里达大学的科学家希望在今年晚些时候重新利用他们的月球土壤，在种植其他植物之前种植更多的鼠耳芥。

It is happiness to note the swelling of pods, the healthy vigour of potato plants, aye, even the shooting up of radishes and cress.

很高兴注意到豆荚的膨胀，马铃薯植物的健康活力，是的，甚至是萝卜和水芹的抽芽。

Dr Appel and Dr Cocroft published their findings in 2014. They have since been replicated many times in both cress and the tobacco plant, another common lab organism, and with a variety of caterpillars.

Appel 博士和 Cocroft 博士于 2014 年发表了他们的发现。此后，他们在水芹和烟草植物（另一种常见的实验室生物）以及各种毛毛虫中进行了多次复制。