Although some gums today still use plants, most recipes today now use synthetic rubber mixed with sugar and other flavorings.

尽管天有些口香糖仍在使用植物，但如数都使用的是合成橡胶与糖和其他调味料混合而成。

" Rubber gloves" are gloves made either from a plant or artificially, we would say synthetically.

“橡胶手套”是用植物或人制成的手套，我们可以说是合成的。

There are hundreds of related plants, including rubber trees, trees that produce castor and tung oil, and the cassava, a root crop.

戟属植物达数百，包括橡胶、产蓖麻油和桐油的木，以及木薯这类块根作物等。

As the plant dries, these resources take on first the properties of honey, then rubber, and finally enter a glass-like state that is " the most stable state that the plant can maintain, " Farrant says.

随着植物的干燥， 这些资源首先呈现出蜂蜜的特性， 然后呈现出橡胶的特性，最后进入玻璃状状态， 这是“植物可以维持的最稳定状态， ” Farrant 说。