每日一词学英语(125): paddy

Imagine a small group of farmers tending a rice paddy some 5,000 years ago in eastern Asia or sowing seeds in a freshly cleared forest in Europe a couple of thousand years before that. (From Economist, August 17, 2009: Nothing new under the sun) 想像一下先民在稻田里耕作或在林间空地播种的情景，那其实已经是影响气候变化的人类活动了，并不是到了工业革命或大规模农业生产时全球气候才开始变化。

paddy又作paddy field，(noun) (pl. -ies) a field in which rice is grown。rice paddy是稻田。