When Spanish conquistadors swept through Mexico and Central America in the 16th century, they renamed it aguacate.

。 16世纪西班牙征服者横扫墨西哥和中美洲时， 将其改名为aguacate。

The farming of aguacate developed over the next few hundred years, predominantly in Central America and South America.

在接下来的几百年里，主要在中美洲和南美洲发展了海藻酸盐养殖业。

But a selection of Californian growers realized that the hard-to-pronounce aguacate was off-putting for the mass market, so they formed the California Avocado Association.

但是一些加利福尼亚种植者意识到难以发音的 aguacate 不适合大众市场， 因此他们成立了加利福尼亚鳄梨协会。

The commercialization of aguacate began in the early 1900s but was focused on branding avocados as a delicacy for the wealthy, like this advert in The New Yorker from 1920, which declared them as " The aristocrat of salad fruit."

aguacate 的商业化始于 1900 年代初期， 但重点是将鳄梨品牌化为富人的美味佳肴， 就像 1920 年纽约客上的这则广告，宣称鳄梨是“沙拉水果的贵族” 。