英语翻译Botany,the study of plants,plays a strange role in the h

英语翻译
Botany,the study of plants,plays a strange role in the history of human knowledge.For many thousands of years it was one field about which humans had little knowledge.It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants,but from what we can observe of pre - industrial societies that still exists,a detailed learning of plants and their properties(特性) must be extremely ancient.This is reasonable.Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things,even for other plants.They have always been enormously important to the good of people,not only for food,but also for clothing,weapons,tools,medicines,housing,and a great many other purposes.Tribes living today in the woods of the Amazon recognize hundreds of plants and know many properties of each.To them botany has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of “knowledge” at all.
Unfortunately,the more industrialized we become the farther away we move from direct relation with plants,and the less clear our knowledge of botany grows.Yet everyone comes unconsciously on a surprising amount of botanical knowledge,and few people will fail to recognize a rose,an apple,or an orchid.When our New Stone Age ancestors,living in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago,discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer production the next season,the first great step in a new association of plants and humans was taken.Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of agriculture:planted crops.From then on,humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants,rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild and the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience and close relations with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.

植物学,植物的研究中,扮演着人类认识史奇怪的角色.对于几千年它是一个领域有哪些人类所知甚少.这是不可能知道今天正是我们石器时代的祖先有关植物知道,但是从我们可以看到前 - 仍然存在,详细的植物学习和它们的属性（特性）的工业社会必须非常古老.这是合理的.植物是对所有生物的食物金字塔的基础,即使是其他植物.他们一直极其重要的良好的人,不仅对食品,而且对服装,武器,工具,药品,住房,和许多其他用途.部落生活在亚马逊今天承认的森林植物数百知道每个的许多特性.对他们来说没有植物学名称,可能甚至不作为“知识”在所有的特殊分支承认.
不幸的是,更多的工业化,我们成为越远,我们从工厂直接关系迈出的一步,不太清楚我们的植物学知识的增长.然而,大家都来自觉地在一个令人惊讶的植物知识量,很少有人会不承认玫瑰,一个苹果,或兰花.当我们的新石器时代的祖先,在中东生活在约一万年前,发现一些草可以收获的种子更丰富的生产种植下个赛季,首次在植物和人类的新的协会采取了重大的一步.谷物发现并从中流过的奇迹农业：种植作物.从此,人类将越来越多地从几个工厂控制生产,生活,而不是有点不从这里成长和野生的经验和近几年积累的知识数以万计的关系多品种小有与野生将开始消失的植物.