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Blackguard的植物学秘密  原文来自于：巴哈姆特           作者：DarkHydra

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Blackguard's Botany Secrets


One might wonder why I, Blackguard, a fearsome and most dangerous pirate, am talking to you about botany. Botany is a precise art. It can be extremely rewarding, and it is a wonderful counter to my daily activities of plundering booty and pillaging enemy ships. It's also really easy to give plants the light they need aboard a ship, which is truthfully the only reason I even have any plants.


也许有人会觉得奇怪，我，万人景仰、风声鹤唳的海盗，Blackguard，为什么会和诸位聊到“植物学”。“植物学”是一门精准的学问，而且有相当的投资报酬率，而且对于我的每日活动有相当大量的财富进帐，对于破坏敌人船舰的功效也相当显著。在船上提供植物所需光线也是相当方便，这就是关于我在船上培养植物最简单而且最实在的理由。


My reasons for practicing the careful art of botany aside, I write to you to reveal some of the secrets I have discovered through experimentation and no lack of personal pain. I'm here to talk about the carnivorous plant. This plant is quite unique in that it has a sentience of its own yet can be moderately domesticated.


研究植物的理由为何？这是一门需要小心谨慎的艺术，我写这篇文章为的就是要告诉你们我在实验研究中发现的这些小秘密－事实上我也受了一点伤。今天我们要讲的是“食肉植物”，这种植物相当独特，因为它是有情感、有知觉的，甚至还可以透过训练让它变得有风度，有教养。


The first hard part about caring for a carnivorous plant is actually acquiring one. I happened upon one after gaining access to the Kingdom of Sky, as they call it. They say you too can get a carnivorous plant simply by, how did the sage say it, "purchasing the retail version of Kingdom of Sky ." I'm not sure what a retail version is, but my guess is that it's some alternate dimension of the Overrealm. You can figure the rest out for yourself.


照顾食肉植物的第一个难题，当然是怎么找到一株。我在寻找通往苍天国度（他们是这么叫的）的途中就这么找到一株。有位贤者提供了取得的方法，他这么说： “只要买KOS零售版，你也能轻松获得。”我不太明白他所指的“零售版”是什么意思，但是我猜应该是另外一种让你能够前往Overrealm的途径吧。其他什么的，你就自己猜猜吧。


The first thing you must understand about your carnivorous plant is that it is no mere plant, nor is it a mere pet. It is rumored that the shock of a plant becoming sentient can generally result in one of two outcomes: First, the shock can be so utterly shocking that the now-sentient plant simply loses its sentience. This is the more common outcome. Second, the plant can develop a superiority complex over other common plants and may be rather aggressive toward plant life and other sentient beings alike.


请先明白一件事，你身边的这株食肉植物不只是植物，也不只是宠物。传言，这些有知觉的植物受到某种冲击后，将会有两种类型的转变：其一，退化至知觉完全消失－这是最常见的转变；第二种，进行极遽的进化，有可能变得对生物具有侵袭性与侵略性。


The moral of the story? Treat your carnivorous plant kindly. It is a carnivore, not a herbivore, and you yourself can serve as food for carnivores. You may have seen recent pictures of me. I'm bald. I divulge to you one of my many secrets: I wasn't always bald, and I didn't lose my hair from aging. The carnivorous plant has highly acidic saliva. Put two and two together, and you will realize how important this advice is, unless you like looking particularly dashing as a bald mine like me.


这一小段故事告诉我们什么呢？善待你的食肉植物，它嗜肉，是株肉食生物，不是草食生物，你也有可能成为它口器下的亡魂。也许你最近看过我的留影，“秃发”。让我告诉你一个私人的小秘密：这可不是天然秃，我并不是因为年纪长了而开始掉发，秃发的原因完全是因为这植物带着强烈酸蚀性的唾液。由此推论，你便能知道我的忠告有多重要了，除非你想和我一样成为型男。


The next interesting aspect of owning a carnivorous plant is that depending on what you feed it, you may be rewarded by the plant regurgitating some lovely rewards. I have experimented fairly extensively to discover what exactly you can be rewarded with, and I will reveal to you my findings so far.


下一个有趣的话题则是，你喂植物吃什么，你可能能从植物身上采收一些可爱有趣的小玩意儿。我做了好多的实验对照来找出一些结果，将在下面的文字中与你分享。


To begin, you must find something to give the carnivorous plant. You will usually find these items on creatures throughout the world, and they tend not to give them to you unless you kill them first. I find that killing someone makes them highly more likely to give you an item they hold dear to them. Without fail. The three types of items you will discover are fertilizer, water, and bone.


首先，你得找些东西喂养你的盆栽。你可以在这世界上所有生物的身上搜刮到所需的养料，不过当然不是他们自动奉上，先杀了他们再说。我发现杀掉某些带骨附肉的的生物，很容易可以取得这些东西－还蛮容易的。你能发掘的这三种用来作为肥料的东西分别是肥料，水，以及骨头。


Feeding your plant in different combinations will yield different results. More potent fertilizer, water, and bone can be found in more difficult regions of the world on more difficult creatures. Such is life. So feeding your plant the appropriate combination with a difficult to acquire series of plant foods will produce a better item.


用不同的配套措施喂食你的盆栽，将会产出各种不同的结果。更营养的骨料，水，肥料可以在危险指数更高的区域里，从更凶恶的生物身上获得－这就是人生。用适当而且优质的配套养料对植物施肥，将会产出更好物品。


There are, additionally, three different types of resulting rewards from feeding your plant these combinations: fruit, rotten fruit, and roots. I have found that rotten fruit has little more use than taking up space in my backpack, so I generally either toss it away or feed it to a friend as a joke. Fruit, so far as I can tell, is most useful as something to eat. And finally, roots can be used to provide a variety of different effects for the user. Those are what we want. Let's look more at my findings...


此外，这三种养料所养出的收成会有三种类型：烂水果，新鲜水果，以及根束（roots）。这烂水果除了占背包空间以外没什么用处，所以我通常把烂水果丢掉或是拿来和朋友开玩笑。再来是水果，就我所知，水果通常是拿来吃的。最后是根束了，这些根束能提供服用者各种不同的效果，这想必是我们最需要的。下面，再继续和大家分享我的发现…。


First, if one doesn't give their carnivorous plant at least one of each type of food, it will nearly always produce a rotten fruit. Giving your plant one of each type of food seems to sometimes give rotten fruit, and other times give regular fruit. Beyond those combinations, it gets a bit more complicated.


首先，如果不对你的盆栽喂食，他结的果几乎永远都是烂水果；每种喂食一份，会结出正常的果实，而有时候才会结出烂水果。那当然，还有一些比这更复杂的喂食配套系统。


When I give my carnivorous plant 2 fertilizer, 2 water, and 2 bones, I tend to get rotten fruit, fruit, or sometimes a root that provides me with a haste effect. When I give my carnivorous plant 1 fertilizer, 2 water, and 3 bones, I generally get rotten fruit, fruit, or a root that provides me with the ability to run faster. Finally, if I give my carnivorous plant 3 fertilizer, 1 water, and 1 bone, I either get rotten fruit, fruit, or a root that provides me with restored health.


当要以两份肥料，两份水，还有两块骨头来施肥时，通常会得到一些水果（也有腐烂的），或是能够加快攻击速度的植物根束。当我以一份肥料，两份水，三块骨头来施肥时，我通常能获得用水果（包含腐烂的），或是能让我跑得快一点的根束。最后呢，如果我用三份肥料，一份水，以及一块骨头，则会得到水果（也有腐烂的），以及能恢复体力的根束。


Those are the combinations I have personally discovered so far, but I have heard rumors of many other types of roots. They say you can get roots that refresh your power, roots that do damage to your enemies, and roots that make you invisible to prying eyes. There are even tales of roots that have even more beneficial effects, but I think of those simply as rumors because it seems silly that a simple root could make you larger or send you to a different area of the world. Completely ridiculous claims, I think.


上面提到的是我个人在栽养过程中所得到的心得，但是曾听过一些传言，在收成的时候会拿到一些不同种类的根束。他们说，你可以用那些根束来恢复能量（Power），伤敌，隐身等等效果。甚至有传说故事提及某些更有益处的根束，但只是谣言吧，因为说什么能让你变大，又可以做到传送的功能…在我来说，这还真是愚蠢至极。


Well, there you have it. You now know very nearly as much as I know about the secrets of the carnivorous plant. Enjoy the art of botany, but be careful and, most importantly, be kind to your plants and they will be kind to you. If you have any secrets of your own, I would be quite interested to hear about them.


是了，现在你们应该了解了，现在各位对这种食虫植物应该有相当（和我差不多）的掌握了，好好享受植物带来的乐趣吧。但是小心了，最重要的是，温柔对待你的盆栽，他们也会同样以温柔回报你。如果你发现了什么新秘密，我很乐意倾听。


~ Blackguard