American farmers use machines to pick the ears of corn from the plants.

美国农民使用机器收割谷穗。

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A lot of the kids would tassel corn, pick cucumbers or whatever crop was ripe for the picking.

很多小孩在农场掰玉米，摘黄瓜，收获任何成熟的农作物。

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The birds have a taste for sunseeds and also pick on corn kernels from the cobs, often ruining them.

鸟类很喜欢吃葵花籽，还能把玉米粒从玉米穗上叼下来，常常造成毁灭性的破坏。

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That should be enough to get him to South Dakota, where he can pick up some more corn-cob ethanol from POET before heading further east.

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Many prisoners are stunted and deformed from back-breaking work, 12 hours a day, seven days a week, with so little food that they eat rats and snakes, and pick through cow dung for grains of corn.

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America's ethanol subsidy, which has led to a huge rise in production, rocketing maize prices and consequent rioting in Mexico, is the sharpest example of why government should not pick winners: once the fertiliser and fuel used in corn production are taken into account, ethanol is probably not much greener than petrol.

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