Farmer ants secrete antibiotics to control other fungi that might act as "weeds", and spread waste to fertilise the crop.

农民蚂蚁分泌抗生素来控制其他可能充当“杂草”的真菌，并传播排泄物来给作物施肥。

To fertilise them the native women had to transport human manure from the city of Fuzhou.

为了给梯田施肥，当地的妇女们不得不从福州城运来人粪。

He plans to fertilise his fields with manure, rather than chemicals derived from oil and natural gas.

他想用肥料种地而不是用从石油和天然气中提炼的化学成分。

Zhangzidao Fishery Group, a Chinese aquaculture company, recycles uneaten fish feed to fertilise crops.

大连的海洋食品企业獐子岛渔业集团，重复利用剩鱼来肥沃庄稼。

The discovery suggests that increased CO2 in the atmosphere could fertilise extra growth in the mature forests.

研究表明大气中增加的二氧化碳可促进成熟森林的生长。

In the early 20th century, the world's growing population couldn't find enough ammonia to fertilise all its crops.

二十世纪初，世界人口不断增长，但人们还没有认识到足够的氨可以让耕地更加肥沃。

One widely discussed idea, which the Royal Society's correspondents re-examine, is to fertilise the oceans with iron.

一个受到广泛讨论，也是皇家学会成员再次斟酌的观点是利用铁物质对海洋施肥。

Blocking a river with a dam blocks the movement both of fish upstream to spawn and of silt downstream to fertilise fields.

建堤坝来阻断河流，既阻挡了回流产卵的鱼，又阻碍了下游淤泥肥沃土壤。

Blocking a river with a dam also blocks the movement of fish upstream to spawn and the movement of silt downstream to fertilise fields.

用大坝阻断河流使得鱼类无法逆流而上去产卵，同时淤泥无法顺流而下去肥沃土地。

Botanists have discovered for the first time that the plants are carnivorous predators who kill insects in order to "self-fertilise" themselves.

植物学家首次发现，这种植物是食肉性捕食者，它们捕杀昆虫是为了“给自己补充营养”。

Tomatoes are able to fertilise themselves, without need of a pollinator, yet even this self-pollination can be assisted by a bee visiting a flower.

番茄可以自我繁衍，不需要传粉者，但是如果有蜜蜂来传播花粉，这种自花授粉的植物也会得到帮助。

It may also cover the cost of a plan to create "green corridors" between tiger habitats, allowing the cats to cross-fertilise their isolated gene pools.

这笔资金或许也会负担在老虎栖息地之间建造“绿色走廊”这一计划所需之费用，这将使老虎交叉受精于独立的基因库之中。