Title:Come summer, cucumber fruit is everywhere

With the searing summer heat tormenting the people, matured cucumber fruits that have invaded the markets and roadsides in Thanjavur district over the past couple of weeks have come as a welcome respite for the consumers from oppressive weather conditions.

炎热的夏天折磨着人们，过去几个星期，在丹加武区，已经成熟了的黄瓜水果入侵了市场和路边，这成为消费者免于受压迫气候条件的一个值得欢迎的暂缓。

Come summer, a slew of vegetables and fruits spring forth in the markets and roadsides to cool the consumers. Among them, cucumber fruits occupy a unique place because of their attractive, bright yellow and off green colour as also due to the fact that it is preferred variously as fresh tender fingerling, matured vegetable and as ripened fruit.

夏天来了，市场上和路边大量蔬菜和水果涌出，给消费者降温。其中，黄瓜水果占有独特的地位，因其具有吸引力和明亮的黄和淡绿色。

These days several makeshift roadside sales spots have sprung up in Thanjavur district where lots of cucumber fruits are on offer. The usually elongated cucumber fruits come in varied sizes and costs. The price ranges from ₹30 to even ₹200 for a fruit weighing around six kg. Many oversized cucumber fruits are also up grabs in the Kumbakonam neighbourhood.

这些天，在丹加武区，出现了一些临时性的路边销售点，那里有大量的黄瓜果实，通常细长的黄瓜水果大小和成本各不相同。重六公斤的水果价格在30欧元甚至200欧元不等。

Though predominantly a crop withstanding high temperatures and drought conditions, cucumber when cultivated in water abounding fields such as in the Cauvery-fed Kumbakonam region achieves fantastic growth that is reflected in its rich and radiant yellowish sheen on the outside and fleshy, sweet interiors that is whitish to sunrise pink in colour, explains a cucumber vendor D. Ravi of Darasuram.

虽然主要作物具有高温和干旱条件，黄瓜在养猪养猪养猪库姆地区等多花田中种植时，其丰富的、光照的黄黄瓜可实现奇妙的生长发育，体现于雄厚和肉质的丰富光泽，香甜的内饰以白色到日出粉红色。

Cucumber retains it water content through all its stages of growth and that is an important factor which also spins good revenue for the grower through all its stages of growth. Though in drought-prone Pudukkottai region, farmers prefer to harvest cucumber as tender fingers for its appealing juicy taste, here in Thanjavur, Kumbakonam, Tiruvidaimarudur areas, we allow the vegetable to mature to the fruit stage before we harvest, observes a grower E. Bhaskar of Thirubhuvanam.

黄瓜在整个生长阶段都保留了含水量，这也是一个重要的因素，因为它也为种植者带来良好的收入在其成长的所有阶段。虽然在干旱多发的普杜克科塔伊地区，农民还是愿意以黄瓜作为它的诱人的果汁口味的手指，在丹贾武尔、昆巴孔姆、提鲁维达马鲁杜尔地区，我们让蔬菜在收获之前成熟到水果阶段。

"Cucumber fruit tastes the best when taken along with a sprinkling of jaggery powder. It can also be consumed plain. But children of today do not really show any preference for cucumber fruit and that could take a toll on its cultivation unless parents introduce the fruit to their wards at a young age,"  says T.G. Nambirajan, a retired government servant who lives in Chennai.

“黄瓜水果口味最好，与野火药洒洒水一起服用。但是，今天的孩子并不真正表现出对黄瓜水果的任何偏爱，除非父母在幼年时把水果带进他们的病房"。