Let's start with North American corn or maize, as it's often called.
让我们从人们常说的北美的玉米开始吧。
North American ethanol is mostly made from corn (maize), which is less efficient, and often produced in distilleries powered by coal; it is thus neither as cheap nor as environmentally benign.
北美的乙醇大多数来自谷物(玉米),效率较低而且常常在以煤为动力的蒸馏厂里生产出来;所以它既不便宜也不环保。
Meanwhile, the relative price of corn (maize) to rice, which is much more favoured, has jumped by half.
同时,原来占据优势的谷物(玉米)与大米的对比价格已经减半。
Corn,or maize,is mostly fed to animals or made into ethanol fuel and high-fructose corn syrup.
VOA: special.2010.12.07
You can see in the New World with maize being important how America has become a corn dominated society, even though it's still true that we raise wheat, we raise other things in the United States, and we can import different foods, corn has become an incredibly important constituent of the diet in the U.S.
你能发现玉米在美洲大陆的重要性,那美洲是怎样变成主食玉米的社会的呢,尽管我们仍然种植小麦,在美国也种植其他粮食,而且我们能进口各种不同食物,但是玉米还是变成了,美国人食谱中不可代替的部分
Corn,which is also called maize, is the other pillar of American agriculture.
VOA: standard.2010.02.01
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