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Mmm! These pancakes are delicious, Squeaks!
嗯！这些煎饼太好吃了，吱吱！
And look, I brought our favorite pancake topping.
看，我带了我们最喜欢的煎饼配料。
Yup, maple syrup, nice and sweet.
是的，枫糖浆，又甜又好吃。
I found someone selling maple syrup that they had made from their maple trees, so I bought some for us to share.
我发现有人在卖枫糖浆，那是他们用自己的枫树做的，所以我买了一些分享给大家。
Oh, you have a question, buddy?
哦，你有问题吗，伙计？
Oh yeah - that’s a really good question.
哦，是的，这是一个非常好的问题。
How did they get the maple syrup out of the trees?
他们是怎么从树上把枫糖浆弄出来的？
Making maple syrup is a little more complicated than just scooping syrup out of the tree.
做枫糖浆比简单地从树上舀糖浆要复杂一点。
Do you remember what maple trees look like, Squeaks?
你还记得枫树是什么样子的吗，吱吱？
Yeah! They do have really pretty leaves!
是啊！它们的叶子确实很漂亮！
Maple leaves are famous - they’re even on the flag of Canada.
枫叶很有名--它们甚至印在加拿大的国旗上。
During the summer, maple leaves are busy making food for their tree to help it grow and survive.
在夏天，枫叶忙于为他们的树制造食物，以帮助它生长和生存。
The big leaves use air, water, and sunlight to make a special type of food, and you like this food, too, Squeaks!
大片叶子利用空气、水和阳光来制作一种特殊的食物，你也喜欢这种食物，吱吱！
Trees need to make sugar!
树需要制造糖！
Those beautiful maple leaves create sugar that the tree uses to grow and stay strong, just like how our food helps us to grow and stay strong.
这些美丽的枫叶产生了枫树用来茁壮成长的糖，就像我们的食物帮助我们生长和保持强壮一样。
To help the sugar move around to different parts of the tree, the sugar is mixed up with a bunch of water, so it can flow easily through the different parts of the tree.
为了帮助糖移动到树的不同部分，糖与一束水混合在一起，这样它就可以很容易地流过树的不同部分。
That sugar-water mixture is called sap, and it looks just like water, but tastes a tiny bit sweet.
这种糖水混合物叫做汁液，看起来像水，但尝起来有点甜。
The sap moves the sugar around, a little bit like blood moves around inside your body.
汁液移动糖分，有点像血液在你体内流动。
Maple sap is actually what people use to make maple syrup, but we have to wait for a special time of year to get the sap out of the tree.
枫汁实际上是人们用来做枫糖浆的东西，但我们必须等待一年中的一个特殊时间才能把树的汁液从树上取出来。
During the colder months, the tree’s food is stored away inside the tree, ready to be used in spring for the tree to grow.
在较冷的月份，树的食物被储存在树内，准备在春天用来让树生长。
Because the sap is stored inside the tree, we have to wait until the sap is running to pull it out of the tree’s trunk.
因为树的汁液储存在树内，所以我们必须等到汁液开始流动才能把它从树干中取出来。
Oh, no, the sap doesn’t grow legs and run away, Squeaks.
哦，不，汁液不会长腿就跑，吱吱。
We say that the sap is running when it begins to move up and down the tree in early spring.
我们说，在初春汁液开始在树上上下移动时，汁液正在流动。
When winter is changing into spring, it’s time for the trees to start growing new leaves.
当冬去春来，树木开始长出新叶的时候了。
When the nights are cold enough that the sap freezes into ice and the days are warm enough that the icy sap melts, maple trees are able to start pumping sugary sap to their branches.
当夜晚足够冷，树液冻结成冰，白天足够温暖，冰冷的树液融化时，枫树就可以开始向树枝输送含糖的树液。
This temperature change makes the sap move up and down the trunk.
这种温度变化使树液在树干上上下移动。
This sap looks like it’s running through the tree - up up up during cold nights, and down down down during warm days.
这种汁液看起来像是在寒冷的夜晚流过树梢，在温暖的白天流下。
As the sap runs up and down, it’s the perfect time to collect sap from the tree trunk.
当树液上下流动时，这是从树干上收集树液的绝佳时机。
To get the sap out, people tap the tree.
为了排出树液，人们会轻拍这棵树。
They drill a small hole into the trunk of the three, and a short spout is placed in the hole.
他们在这三个的树干上钻一个小洞，并在洞中放置一个短喷口。
As the sap runs up and down the trunk, some of it goes through the hole, and out the spout.
当树液在树干上上下下流动时，其中一些会穿过洞口，然后从喷口流出。
The sap can be caught by a bucket underneath the spout, or funneled down a long set of tubes to be caught in big barrels.
汁液可以被喷口下面的水桶接住，也可以顺着一长串管子顺着漏斗流下来，装在大桶里。
Oh! It’s not syrup quite yet, Squeaks.
噢!这还不是糖浆呢，吱吱。
Syrup-makers gather as much sap as they can, making sure to leave plenty for the trees to keep growing, and they put it in a giant pan called an evaporator to boil.
糖浆制造商收集尽可能多的汁液，确保留下足够的树液让树木继续生长，然后把它们放在一个叫做蒸发器的巨型锅里煮沸。
As the sap boils, a lot of the water in the sap evaporates, or floats away in the air as water vapor.
当树液沸腾时，树液中的大量水分蒸发，或以水蒸气的形式漂浮在空气中。
The remaining sap gets thicker, sweeter, stickier, and it turns a beautiful brown as the sugars inside heat up.
剩下的汁液变得更稠、更甜、更粘，当里面的糖加热时，它会变成漂亮的棕色。
Eventually, it turns into…
最终，它变成了…
Right, maple syrup!
对，枫糖浆！
Maple-syrup makers have to work very hard to gather enough sap, boil it just right, and take care of all of the maple trees that help make our favorite syrup.
枫糖浆制造商必须非常努力地收集足够的汁液，煮得恰到好处，并照顾好所有有助于制作我们最喜欢的糖浆的枫树。
Oh I agree, Squeaks!
噢，我同意，吱吱！
Thank you so much maple trees.
谢谢这么多枫树。
And now it’s time to eat some of this delicious maple syrup and finish off these pancakes.
现在是时候吃一些美味的枫糖浆了，把这些煎饼吃完。
Do you have maple trees where you live?
你住的地方有枫树吗？
Are there other plants preparing for spring or helping provide tasty foods for you to eat?
有没有其他植物在为春天做准备，或者提供美味的食物给你吃？
Have fun exploring, and remember, if you would like to keep learning and discovering new things with me, Squeaks, and all of our friends,
享受探索的乐趣，记住，如果你想和我、吱吱以及我们所有的朋友继续学习和发现新事物，
make sure to click the subscribe button.
请务必点击订阅按钮。
And we’ll see you next time here at the Fort.
我们下次在福特堡见。
