我们没有看见长城,但沿途经过壮观的岩石山峦,田野里种满玉米和葵花,尽管浓雾遮盖了视线。
We didn't see the wall itself, but along the way we passed some spectacular rocky scenery and fields full of maize and sunflowers (though a thick haze marred the views.)
“这些动物吃我们的庄稼,破坏它们,”他咆哮着说,“看那些脚印,它们毁了我的玉米,现在我什么吃的都没有了。”
"Those animals are eating our crops, destroying them, " he moans.
环保团体称玉米乙醇并没有给我们什么有价值的温室气体排放降低,这部分是生产乙醇的能耗和用水过多所致。
Environmental groups had argued that its use offered no meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions - in part because of the vast use of energy and water in the ethanol conversion process.
他说“收成为零”,“没有农作物,有几百万人正在挨饿,只能靠我们的袋装玉米来维持。”
No crop. Millions of hungry people, and just our maize sacks to feed them.
然而我们过得既不朴素,又没有独立性,在康科德,店里已经很难买到又新鲜又甜的玉米粉了,玉米片和更粗糙的玉米简直已没有人吃。
Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.
之所以没有逮捕琼斯是因为在审问克拉克小姐时他告诉我们整碗的玉米面粉并不是琼斯太太吃的而是她。
Jones was not arrested because on interrogating Miss Clark she told us that the whole of the bowl of corn flour was drunk not by Mrs Jones but by her.
我们都曾有过这样的经历:当您无限渴望巧克力,辣玉米片或一份简单的培根三明治的时候,没有其他快餐能代替它们-你渴望之至。
We've all been there. When you're consumed by a burning desire for chocolate, spicy tortilla chips or a humble bacon sarnie, no other snack will do - and you need it fast.
又过了几天,这个鸭子又回来要玉米,酒保说:“最好告诉你一次,我们这没有玉米!
The next day he goes in again and asks for corn, and the bartender says, "For the last time, we don't have corn!"
又过了几天,这个鸭子又回来要玉米,酒保说:“最好告诉你一次,我们这没有玉米!
The next day he goes in again and asks for corn, and the bartender says, "For the last time, we don't have corn!"
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