主题：（轻松一下），蔬菜和水果的区别？ -- 非

学前教育学里，有一门课程涉及到幼儿的science,主要内容是作为老师如何用适当的方法，合适的语言以及有趣的游戏来扩展，提高小孩子在这方面的能力。

TUTOR授课的时候，拿我们做了实验，当时就让本来睡眼迷蒙的我乐不可支，因为我发现我自以为是的绰绰有余的“science”能力得到了挑战。简单的说，我发现我并不能清楚的说明白蔬菜和水果的区别。

TUTOR让我们做的是一个如何把蔬菜和水果分组的生物题。

要求是这样的：

把苹果，西红柿，花生，香菜（芫荽），蒜头，香蕉，芹菜，土豆，青椒，按照“蔬菜”和“水果”来分类。

其中，对于西红柿还尽现东西方的不同眼光，因为班上学生里只有我一个中国人，其他都是老外。

换了是你，你会把上面的那些蔬菜水果如何分类呢？

听说过一个老印曾经留下过"洋葱是水果"的名言。。。

口味轻重对这个界限其实有很大的影响的，呵呵。青西红柿是蔬菜，红西红柿具有"蔬果二向性"。洋葱的归属和文化差异有关，

中式分法

水果：苹果，香蕉，

蔬菜：西红柿，花生，香菜（芫荽），蒜头，芹菜，土豆，青椒。

西式分法

水果：苹果，香蕉，西红柿，花生，青椒，

蔬菜：香菜（芫荽），蒜头，土豆，芹菜。

“俺们俺们俺们猴子，爱吃爱吃爱吃桃子”，笑。。。。

其实猴子最爱吃的到底是桃子呢还是香蕉呢？

为甚么小白兔最爱吃的就是胡萝卜呢？

最近老琢磨这种充满劳动人民朴素智慧常识的东西，就是琢磨了半天也没琢磨出个所以然来。

反倒是小时候，毫不犹豫的认为小白兔就是最爱吃红萝卜的，还曾经有个梦想，等我有了地，我要种一大片的胡萝卜出来给小白兔吃！

What determines if something is a fruit or vegetable?

A vegetable is described as "any herbaceous (non-woody) plant or plant part that is eaten with the main course rather than as a dessert. It usually has a bland taste."

Botanically the fruit is "the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, pineapple, etc." or " the edible part of a plant developed from a flower with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, banana, etc."

The confusion arises because the "vegetable" can have "fruit" which are the reproductive parts. The tomato is probably the only legally declared vegetable in a Supreme Court ruling in the early 1900's.

fruit ( P ) Pronunciation Key (frt)

n. pl. fruit or fruits

1.A.The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.

B.An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.

C.A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food: fruit for dessert.

2.The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.

3.A plant crop or product: the fruits of the earth.

4.Result; outcome: the fruit of their labor.

5.Offspring; progeny.

6.A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.

7.Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

veg·e·ta·ble ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vjt-bl, vj-t-)

n.

1. A.A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.

B.The edible part of such a plant.

C.A member of the vegetable kingdom; a plant.

2. Offensive Slang. One who is severely impaired mentally and physically, as by brain injury or disease.

3. One who is regarded as dull, passive, or unresponsive.

我看他们当粮食的，不能算水果是不是。

第一类:苹果，西红柿，香蕉，青椒

第二类:花生，香菜（芫荽），蒜头，芹菜，土豆

给个提示:在印度,一些极端的素食者只吃第一类

在超市里西红柿是跟其他蔬菜一起的。

我对了吧。

吁，摸了一把汗，好歹也是学生物的，这么简单的问题可不能丢脸。

最近在看一些新出来的东西。很有意思的。那个东西既然要好好写，那就索性不急，先放一放，等心里面有了比较全面的打算之后再说。罗马不是一天建成的。还有一句话，

It always better to be late than to be wrong.

--Linda Buck (2004 Noble Laureate)