朴实而显荒凉的故乡,位于新竹县西北隅,仅以一蜿蜒小溪与桃园县接壤,是一农渔兼具的村庄。
Situated at the north-western tip of Xin-zhu County, bordering Tao-yuan County with a small winding stream is my old hometown, the humble and bleak fishing and farming village.
“啊,天哪,”麦金农叹息道,“你也一样。”
麦金农把轮子向船的右舷又轻推了一下。
一位稻农抱怨说,从田里出来,腿都发痒。
南非中部,一群玉米农挤成一团,围着一名农学家和他放在灌溉机旁的电脑。
A group of corn farmers stands huddled around an agronomist and his computer on the side of an irrigation machine in central South Africa.
冲突从2002年以来就初现端倪,那时公司购买了佛蒙特州唯一的核电站,那是一个位于弗农的老化反应堆。
The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.
另一个因素是,传统的奶农在他们喂养奶牛的谷物价格上涨时感到了压力,他们的利润空间也被压缩。
Another factor is the squeeze that conventional dairy farmers have felt as the price of grain they feed their cows has gone up, tightening their profit margins.
弗农和安·乔丹安排我们住在牡蛎池塘边上罗伯特·麦克纳马拉的一幢小别墅里。
Vernon and Ann Jordan had arranged for us to stay on the edge of the oyster pond in a cottage that belonged to Robert McNamara.
加拿大帝国商业银行成功地使用了一种原产于墨西哥的以种子为食的象鼻虫来控制讨厌的帕特农杂草,这种杂草已知会对印度和澳大利亚的农业和人类健康产生负面影响。
CIBC successfully used a seed-feeding weevil, native to Mexico, to control the obnoxious parthenium weed, known to exert devious influence on agriculture and human health in both India and Australia.
尼恩·农布是一个长着双下巴和鼠眼的矮个子萨卢斯特原住民。
他将他自己描述成一个“草农”,因为草是他农场动物食物链中最基础的原料。
He describes himself as a grass farmer because grass is the base of the food chain of his farm animals.
我们不该假定每一个农二代的都会反抗——更普遍的是,(在发生冲突时)走人的冲动盖过了任何其他的想法。
We should not assume that the default mode of every migrant is protest — more often, the urge to leave wins out over everything else.
他在韦尔农租下他可能找到的一所最小的房子。
He had hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon.
电影早餐俱乐部里有这么一个场景,教师迪克弗农问看门守卫卡尔,但他还是个孩子的时候他想成为什么样的人。
There is a scene in the movie The Breakfast Club where the teacher, Dick Vernon, asks Carl the janitor what he wanted to be when he was a kid.
然后就有了发现:如果有人收到来自朋友的礼物,就会更加喜欢这个游戏,比如说收到虚拟木头和钉子以建立一个数字农屋。
Discovery: People enjoy the games more if they receive gifts from their friends, such as the virtual wood and nails needed to build a digital barn.
这一法案恰好只影响到一座加州城市——弗农市。
一位稻农抱怨说,从田里出来,腿都发痒;而因为这里的水腐蚀金属,自己的老婆每个月都得买一把新水壶。
A rice farmer complains of itchy legs from the paddies, and his wife needs a new kettle each month because the water corrodes metal.
此外,美国在2004年才开始引进澳大利亚蜜蜂——也是在这一年,美国的蜂农们第一次看到被确信是蜂群衰竭失调的情况。
Moreover, it was in 2004 that America began importing bees from australia-just when American beekeepers are thought to have seen the first suspected cases of colony collapse disorder.
八岁的时候,我们一家从开罗搬到了伊利诺斯州的弗农山,从此远离了祖母。
We had moved from Cairo to Mt.Vernon, Illinois, away from my grandmother when I was eight years old.
对于那些不熟悉这首歌的人,这里说的是一位懒农,经常抱怨桶上有这么一个窟窿,老婆叫他去修。
For those not familiar with the song, it concerns a lazy farmer who complains about said hole and is told by his wife to fix it.
湖畔上零星座落着一处处小屋,这个湖位于以农为业的乡村,然而湖畔林木颇为繁茂。
There were cottages sprinkled around the shores, and it was in farming although the shores of the lake were quite heavily wooded.
尽管他们结婚没多久,杰克森和仙农却得到了一份友谊:宽恕锻造出来的可能性。
Though they are no longer married, Jason and Shannon share a friendship: a possibility forged by forgiveness.
虽然农民具有风险规避性:通常需要他们一到两个农季来全面回应更高的价格,但这些粮食的产量还是成功的增加了。
These increases were achieved even though farmers are risk-averse: it usually takes them a season or two to respond fully to higher prices.
中国的乳业和美国的一样,奶农们在价格上的竞争多过在质量上的竞争。
The Chinese dairy industry is one, like my own native us, where farmers more often compete on price than quality.
就像广泛种植的抗农达大豆一样,这样的藻可以抵抗农达除草剂。
Like the widely grown Roundup Ready soybeans, these algae are resistant to the herbicide Roundup.
一些奶农甚至希望新的产品抑制物能马上出现,使牛奶变得稀有,从而卖价更高。
Some want new production curbs imposed immediately to make milk scarcer and thus more expensive.
一些奶农甚至希望新的产品抑制物能马上出现,使牛奶变得稀有,从而卖价更高。
Some want new production curbs imposed immediately to make milk scarcer and thus more expensive.
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