And thirdly, you weave the water hyacinth into products.

第三步，把水葫芦编织成工艺品。

Water hyacinth coat the waterways of Shanghai in a thick green carpet.

水葫芦在上海的水道上铺上一层厚厚的绿色地毯。

First step: Get out into the waterways and harvest the water hyacinth.

第一步，进入河道， 收割水葫芦。

Brazilian peppertrees blocked out the sun, water hyacinths clogged the rivers, and brown anole lizards upset the food chain.

巴西胡椒树遮挡了阳光，水葫芦堵塞了河流，棕色变色蜥蜴扰乱了食物链。

Water hyacinths had filled the channels.

水葫芦已经填满了通道。

But the actual factor is water hyacinth is a blessing in disguise.

但实际因素是水葫芦是因祸得福。

The water hyacinth has posed problems and choked waterways in over 50 countries.

水葫芦已在 50 多个国家造成问题并阻塞水道。

The digesters use biomass, such as water hyacinth, to create bio gas, which burns cleaner than charcoal or wood.

- 沼气池使用水葫芦等生物质来产生沼气，其燃烧比木炭或木材更清洁。

He and his team collect an invasive species of water hyacinth, which blankets Lake Victoria and harms aquatic life and local communities.

他和他的团队收集了一种入侵物种水葫芦，它覆盖了维多利亚湖并危害水生生物和当地社区。

Yes, plants like water hyacinths have been used to clean rivers by sucking up oil spilled into the water, and researchers have successfully used fungi to breakdown plastic waste.

是的，像水葫芦这样的植物已经被用来通过吸收泄漏到水中的石油来清洁河流，而且研究人员已经成功地利用真菌来分解塑料垃圾。

We work in darkness down to the mouth of the run, where the water hyacinths mass against the current, then paddle upstream with our catch in the moonlight.

我们在黑暗中一直工作到河口， 水葫芦逆流而上， 然后在月光下逆流而上。

A group of children, who were not students at the school, led me, as well as the principal of the school and his deputy, through the floating water hyacinth that was everywhere in the compound.

一群不是在校学生的孩子带着我和校长和他的副手，穿过院子里随处可见的漂浮的水葫芦。

To the west, the hammock becomes damp, the trees stand more sparsely. Beyond is a long stretch of marsh where the cattle feed lazily, belly-deep in water hyacinths and lily pads, then the wide lake itself.

西边的吊床变得潮湿，树木更加稀疏。远处是一片长长的沼泽地，牛在那里懒洋洋地觅食，水葫芦和睡莲叶深及肚腹，然后是宽阔的湖泊。

I pointed to the northeast and she nodded vehemently. It had come to both of us like a revelation that the water hyacinths were drifting faintly faster in that direction. From that instant we were never very long lost.

我指了指东北，她用力地点点头。这对我们俩来说就像是水葫芦朝那个方向飘得越来越快的启示。从那一刻起，我们就再也没有迷路过。