英译汉 2.  Date palms have grown prolifically in both Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Egypt for many thousands of years. Dates are rich in sugar, and in such warm climates fermentation into a liquid containing alcohol took place fairly quickly. Thus, while our first records of dates being made into wine come from the period 3000 B.C. to 2000 B.C., we feel certain that it was made much earlier. Since the fruit itself houses the yeast fungus that causes fermentation, making date wine was a fairly simple process. The only pieces of equipment needed were a jar to hold the date and a strainer used at the end of the fermentation.