A barley seedling predicts a baby boy, while emmer foretells a girl.

麦苗预示男婴，而二粒小麦预示女孩。

The yield for spelt, emmer, and einkorn were 37, 52, and 65% lower, respectively.

斯佩耳特小麦、 二粒小麦和单粒小麦的产量分别降低了 37% 、 52%和 65% 。

Peseshet explains her fail-safe pregnancy test: plant two seeds: one barley, one emmer.

Peseshet 解释了她的故障安全妊娠试验：种下两颗种子： 一颗麦， 一颗二粒小麦。

What was it about barley and emmer wheat that caused them to be the first crops?

麦和二粒小麦为何成为第一批？

Or were barley and emmer wheat actually the best of the local wild cereals that they could have selected?

或者麦和二粒小麦实际们可以选择的当地最好的野生谷吗？

The valley's first domesticated cereals were barley and emmer wheat, which are still among the world's most productive crops today.

山谷中最早驯化的谷麦和二粒小麦，它们至今仍世界产量最高的之一。

Not surprisingly, barley and emmer wheat were on that list.

毫不奇怪，麦和二粒小麦也在该名单。

Among those 23, barley and emmer wheat proved to be the best by many criteria.

从许多标准来看，在这 23 种小麦中，麦和二粒小麦被证明最好的。

In the wild, barley is one of the 4 most abundant of the 23 species, while emmer wheat is of medium abundance.

在野外，麦 23 个种中最丰富的 4 个种之一，而二粒小麦的丰度中等。

Specifically, people are interested in hulled wheat, which is similar to the kinds of wheat that were grown in ancient times, like spelt, emmer, and einkorn.

具体来说，人们对去壳小麦很感兴趣，它类似于古代种植的小麦种类， 如斯佩耳特小麦、二粒小麦和单粒小麦。

Those eight founders were the cereals emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, and barley; the pulses lentil, pea, chickpea, and bitter vetch; and the fiber crop flax.

这八种谷的创始人二粒小麦、单粒小麦和麦；豆类：扁豆、豌豆、鹰嘴豆和苦豌豆；和纤维亚麻。

Two of the founders had very small ranges in the wild, chickpea being confined to southeastern Turkey and emmer wheat to the Fertile Crescent itself.

其中两位创始人在野外的种植范围非常小，鹰嘴豆仅限于土耳其东南部，二粒小麦则仅限于新月沃地本身。

Of the three selfer cereals among them—einkorn wheat, emmer wheat, and barley—the wheats offered the additional advantage of a high protein content, 8–14 percent.

其中三种自交谷——单粒小麦、二粒小麦和麦——小麦的额外优势蛋白质含量高，高达 8% 至 14%。

Whereas the hulled spikelets of spelt, emmer, and einkorn need to be dried, heated, or milled before you can break open the hulls and get to the good stuff.

而斯佩耳特小麦、二粒小麦和单粒小麦的去壳小穗需要先干燥、 加热或碾磨， 然后才能打开外壳并得到好东西。

But their initial selection of barley and emmer wheat rather than other cereals to collect, bring home, and cultivate would have been conscious and based on the easily detected criteria of seed size, palatability, and abundance.

但们最初选择麦和二粒小麦而不其谷来收集、带回家和种植有意识的，并且基于容易检测到的种子小、适口性和丰度标准。