My food was, at first, a troublesome question for my kind foster-mother. She cooked some wild rice and strained it, and mixed it with broth made from choice venison. She also pounded dried venison almost to a flour, and kept it in water till the nourishing juices were extracted, then mixed with it some pounded maize, which was browned before pounding. This soup of wild rice, pounded veni- son and maize was my main-stay. But soon my teeth came--much earlier than the white children usually cut theirs; and then my good nurse gave me a little more varied food, and I did all my own grinding.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
Hubbard's farm, and Kelly's also, deserve regard, from being better managed than most of the others. The people here complain sadly of a destructive grub which destroys the young plants of maize. Many of the settlers have been obliged to plant twice, nay thrice, on the same land, from the depredations of these reptiles. There is the same guard here as at the other settlements. Nothing now remains for inspection but the farms on the river side. December 7th. Went to Scheffer's farm. I found him at home, conversed with him, and walked with him over all his cultivated ground.英文原著 · 《A Complete Account of the Settlement》
When the maize is ripening, the Iroquois know it is the sun's heat that ripens it, but they know more; it is the cigala makes the sun to shine and he does it by chirping, by uttering his orenda. This orenda is sometimes very like the Greek thumos, your bodily life, your vigour, your passion, your power, the virtue that is in you to feel and do. This notion of orenda, a sort of pan-vitalism, is more fluid than animism, and probably precedes it. It is the projection of man's inner experience, vague and unanalysed, into the outer world.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
V: A Midsummer Feast IT was midsummer. Everything that the Santee Sioux had under- taken during the year had been un- usually successful. The spring fur-hunters had been fortunate, and the heavy winter had proved productive of much maple sugar. The women's patches of maize and potatoes were already suffic- iently advanced to use. The Wahpetonwan band of Sioux, the "Dwellers among the Leaves," were fully awakened to the fact that it was almost time for the midsummer festivities of the old, wild days.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
*We love our corn and we need our corn* *But for goodness sake I could just break it in pieces* *Would it be all right If I solved our plight?* *Maybe if I could find my old journals* *They'll help me to grind new kernels* *Aw, shucks!* *I have the willpower to create this mill tower* *We'll be quite a pair though I'll be my own scarecrow* *It's not just a phase* *This female inventor craze* *If it takes years or days* *I'm gonna solve this maize* *'Cause I was boooooorn* *For the cooooooooooorn* I'm sorry.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
The tribe builter fortold that though I lay with fire-haired man, the giving hawk would bring us baby with her skin the color of sweet corn, which my people call maize.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Knowledge is her sustenance, like so much maize -- which, you'll remember, means "Corn." What if I was a single dad?美剧 · 《Modern Family》
The farmers get three to four times the yields that they would with maize. The farmers get three to four times the yields that they would with maize.演讲 · 《Patient capitalism ~ Jacqueline Novogratz》