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Everyone loves sunflowers. How can you not be delighted by these wonderful, tall plants with their beautiful, big, round, yellow flowers?They’ve been adored ever since they first appeared in what is now the southern United States and Mexico some 3,000 years ago. Back then, they were a source of food, with Native Americans using their seeds in everything from bread to breakfast cereals. When the flowers were introduced to Europe in the 1700s, the Russians grew them on an industrial scale to produce sunflower oil. Nowadays, they are still grown for their edible seeds and oil and are praised for their health benefits. Of course, they are also used in bridal bouquets and a multitude of other flower arrangements. You might even be lucky enough to find rare red, white, pink, and purple sunflowers being used this way.
The Dutch were the first to introduce tea to Europe.
首次將茶引進歐洲的是荷蘭人。
Pollution has caused changes to weather patterns on a large scale.
汙染已經大幅造成天氣型態的改變。
We should start out testing on a small scale before we move on to a larger one.
我們應該先做小規模的測試,再做較大型的實驗。
Nuclear weapons cause destruction on a massive scale.
核武造成大規模的破壞。