It smells horrible when you burn whole earcorn in the wood stove.
你把玉米穗放到木炉子上烤，味道很难闻。
2
Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement.
一穗两雀争，意见乱纷纷。
3
From a certain viewpoint, the retired farmer would be "skimming off the top" every time he ate an ear of corn harvested after he no longer worked the fields himself.