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

尽管今天有些口香糖仍在使用植物，但如今大多数都使用的橡胶与糖和其他调味料混。

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

“橡胶手套”用植物或人制的手套，我们可以说的。

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

大戟属植物多达数百种，包括橡胶树、各种产蓖麻油和桐油的树木，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“植物可以维持的最稳定状态， ” Farrant 说。