9. Carrots help you see in the dark. 胡蘿卜有助于提高夜視能力

This was part of World War II propaganda. The British had invented radar and we began bombing the Germans at night. The Germans, confused as to how we bombed them at night, started researching how we were doing it. The British government began to spread the rumor that it was the carrots in our ration packs that helped us see in the dark (Note: "in order" is rarely needed) to put the Germans off our trail. They figured it out eventually, but by that time, the rumor had already stuck.

這是二戰(zhàn)期間的一個(gè)宣傳。英國(guó)人發(fā)明了雷達(dá)并開(kāi)始在夜晚轟炸德國(guó)。德國(guó)人就對(duì)英國(guó)人是如何在夜晚進(jìn)行轟炸作業(yè)感到很好奇，并開(kāi)始研究英國(guó)人是如何做到夜間瞄準(zhǔn)的。英國(guó)政府就散布謠言說(shuō)他們食用一定數(shù)量的胡蘿卜來(lái)提高夜視能力來(lái)迷惑德國(guó)人。德國(guó)人最后發(fā)現(xiàn)了這只是個(gè)謠言，但到那時(shí)是這一說(shuō)法已經(jīng)被廣泛接受了。