J: Hello I'm Jody, welcome to American Cafe! On this edition of American Cafe we are going to talk to our friend Jeannie from West Virginia.

Y: 好香啊。你是在煮湯嗎？

J: No, I am boiling soup. I am boiling brown.

Y: Brown？ 你說的顏色里的brown, 棕色嗎？

J: That is right. I am boiling the color brown.

Y: Jody, 你真是越來越可愛了。 顏色也能煮嗎？

J: Of course, you can boil a color. I got the idea from Jeannie, the woman artist we met who raises sheep and then uses their wool to make stuff.

Y: 對(duì)。我認(rèn)識(shí)Jeannie。她非常特別。為什么說她特別呢？ 因?yàn)樗坏约吼B(yǎng)羊，還會(huì)剪羊毛，織毛衣。 她織的每一件毛衣都是藝術(shù)品。

J: That is right. She also dyes the wool herself.

But Yang Chen, you forgot a part of the process.

Y: 她還會(huì)給羊毛染色啊？

J: People who dye wool naturally use by-products found in nature like fruit, leaves and bark from trees, vegetables, even bugs!

Y: Bugs? 蟲子，我最怕那些小蟲子。 你剛才提到的by-product，能不能給大家解釋一下？

J: By-product, spelled B-Y-P-R-O-D-U-C-T. A by-product is something that is left over from a process.

Y：對(duì)， By-product就是副產(chǎn)品的意思。

J: Jeannie is going to tell us how she is going to use by-product from trees like yellow boxwood elder, osage orange wood and walnut tress to get completely natural color.

Y: 你剛才提到的yellow boxwood elder或者是osage orange wood...

J: Those are just types of trees.

Y: 好。我們就聽聽Jeannie是利用那些by-products來作染料。

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