The Corn Belt Debate: Crops or Cattle?
“玉米带”的争论：种庄稼还是养牛？
What do the lovely birds feed on, crops or plants?
这些可爱的小鸟以什么为食，庄稼还是植物?。
When the floods cover their lands they cannot grow crops or raise animals.
当洪水淹没土地时，他们无法种植农作物或是饲养动物。
The yield of crops or the profit of cattle sale usually fell bellow his estimate.
作物收成或出售牲口的利润，往往低于他的估计。
The yield of crops or the profits of a cattle sale usually fell bellow his estimate.
作物的收成或出售牲口的利润，往往低于他的估计。
Erosion is of course bad for people trying to grow crops or breed animals on that terrain.
对想要在那块地上种植庄稼或者放牧动物的人来说，土壤侵蚀当然是件坏事。
Normally, the image editor crops or enlarges an image when you resize it by moving a sizing handle.
通常，当通过移动尺寸柄调整图像的大小时，图像编辑器裁剪或增大图像。
It will do little good to alleviate poverty if you can no longer harvest your crops or find drinkable water.
如果庄稼不再有收获，或找不到饮用水，贫困就得不到减少。
It was commonly used in predicting national events and planning the best times to plant crops or go to war.
它通常都被用来预测国家(民族)大事，和安排最合适的时间播种，或者是去打仗。
But unlike biodiesels based on soya or other plants, it does not divert crops or land from food production into fuel production.
但是不像基于大豆或其他植物的生物柴油，他并不将农作物或土地从食品产品变成燃料产品。
That's why researchers are prospecting for more alternatives, preferably ones that don't rely on food crops or a 51 cents-per-gallon tax break.
这就是研究者探求更多替代燃料的原因，最好是不依赖粮食作物或每加仑51美分减税的替代燃料。
Modern feeds are derived from crops grown specifically for research or from by-products of surplus crops or foods produced for human consumption.
现代饲料衍生自干草、牧草等饲料作物，人类食品加工的副产物，以及过剩作物。家畜的大部分饮食即含这些来源的混合饲料。
For sometimes, instead of riding off on his horse to inspect his crops or bargain with his tenants, Sir John would sit, in broad daylight, reading.
有时，约翰爵士不骑着马视察庄稼或和佃农们讨价还价的时候，他会在大白天坐下来读书。
And almost 70% of the refugees said they got more than half of their income from some form of private enterprise, such as selling crops or repairing bikes.
而几乎70%的难民说他们是通过如销售谷物或者维修自行车的方式，得到比从某些形式的私人企业那里至少一半的收入。
Nonetheless, scientists have been unable so far to quantify the direct impact of bee decline on crops or plants, and Neumann insisted that some of the impact was qualitative.
尽管如此，科学家至今还不能量化蜜蜂数量下降对庄稼或植物的直接影响，诺依曼则强调其中一些影响是定性的。
The area of planted poplar forests and agroforestry (combining trees and crops or livestock) in China is about 8 million hectares, 30 times greater than the areas under poplar cultivation in France.
中国人工种植的杨树林和农林复合经营系统(杨树与农作物或畜牧生产相结合)约为800万公顷，是法国杨树种植面积的30倍。
That doesn't mean GM crops are perfect, or a one-size-fits-all solution to global agriculture problems.
这并不意味着转基因作物是完美无瑕的，或者它是全球农业问题一刀切的解决方案。
This team effort has now produced crops uniformly waist high or less so that they are better suited to mechanical harvesting.
这个团队的努力现在已经生产出了齐腰高或更低的作物，因此它们更适合机械收割。
Imagine a world where there was no need for farming or growing crops and the same tastes and structures could be printed from an uncooked "food ink".
想象一下这样一个世界——不需要耕种或种植作物，同样的口味和结构可以用生的“食品墨水”打印出来。
What's worse, many cocoa farmers in Africa and other cocoa producing countries like Indonesia and Venezuela are changing to easier to grow crops such as corn or rubber.
更糟糕的是，非洲和印尼、委内瑞拉等其他可可生产国的许多可可种植者正在改种玉米或橡胶等更容易种植的作物。
But this isn't a long paper, so are you going to need to pick a specific area of pre-modern agriculture, like irrigation or food crops of ancient Greece.
但这不是一篇很长的论文，所以你要选定一个现代以前农业的特定领域，像是灌溉技术，或古希腊的粮食作物。
Many have been attempting to conserve water by irrigating less frequently or by switching to crops that require less water.
许多人试图通过减少灌溉频率或改种需水量更少的作物来节约用水。
Other machines would distinguish problem weeds from crops and eliminate them with shots from high-power lasers or a microdot of pesticide.
其他的机器将有问题的杂草从农作物中区分出来，然后用高能激光照射或农药微粒来消灭它们。
Other export crops are tobacco, coffee, bananas, spices and citrus fruits, such as orange, lemon or grapefruit.
其他出口作物有烟草、咖啡、香蕉、香料以及橘子、柠檬或西柚这样的柑橘类水果。
Thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughed up for crops might be able to revert to forest or wilderness.
由于人口增长放缓，目前用于种植作物的耕地可能会恢复成森林或荒野。
Thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughed up for crops might be able to revert to forest or wilderness.
由于人口增长放缓，目前用于种植作物的耕地可能会恢复成森林或荒野。
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