Bt is used as a pesticide to fight cotton bollworms, corn borers and other pests.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

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

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

As we'll talk about later in the class, the biodiversity has shrunk so what used to be hundreds of varieties of corn is now just a few.

像我们后面所要提到的,玉米种群的生物多样性已经从曾经的,几百种减少到了现在的几种

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Yet one American newspaper says he described himself simply as a "corn-fed,country-bred Iowa boy."

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Then he had a machine that granted each pigeon one piece of corn every fifteen seconds; that's very, frustratingly slow for a hungry pigeon to get one piece every fifteen seconds.

他们设计了一个能保证,每隔15秒给鸽子喂一玉米粒的装置,对饥饿的鸽子来说是杯水车薪,每15秒才只有一粒玉米

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Snack foods made with corn are a six-billion-dollar industry in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

So, now, the defenders have to do it, in a perfect situation, I am marching towards their corn crop, grain crop, at the time just before the grain is going to be harvested.

因此被侵方就要做出反应,制定完美的方案,我在庄稼即将成熟之前,会去掠夺他们的庄稼

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He was 16. John went to Judge Tone, the richest man in town, to collect a dollar for some corn the Judge Tone bought from John's father.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

The biodiversity has shrunk for various reasons of profitability and as a consequence of that things like corn crops, and the orange crops in Florida are particularly susceptible to certain environmental conditions, certain pests, and certain types of blight.

生物多样性的减少源自利益的驱动,和玉米一样,佛罗里达的柑橘作物很容易受到,一定环境条件的影响,还有虫害和枯萎病

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It began with this news: READER: "The Christianized Indians in some parts of Plimouth, have newly appointed a day of Thanksgiving to God for his Mercy in supplying their extreme and pinching Necessities under their late want of Corn, & for His giving them now a prospect of a very Comfortable Harvest.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

What we'll--later in the course we'll talk about how much of your body has been influenced by corn; how much of your diet is influenced by corn; how many products you touch in a given day have been derived in some way from corn.

我们会在以后的课堂上讲到,玉米对你身体有多少影响,玉米对你的日常饮食又有多少影响,一天之内你接触到的产品,有多少是由玉米加工而来的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"People realized that if you fed a chicken a mixture of corn and soy, that chicken grew a lot faster."

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Some of that is being forced by the United States and the corn to ethanol conversion program that has pushed up the price of corn a great deal, pushed down the world supply of corn for eating, and pushed up world prices.

美国在一定程度上推动了这件事,玉米向乙醇转化项目,大大抬高了玉米价格,削减了可供食用玉米的供应量,世界玉米的价格就提高了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

an endearing addition to the distant mountains,corn fields and lake a few dozen kilometers outside bustling Beijing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

And then of course, there's the word sugar itself and then things like high fructose corn syrup, so there are a lot of ways that sugar gets put into foods and you wouldn't expect it to be there.

当然,还有糖本身这个词,还有像高果糖玉米糖浆这类东西,所以食品中含有很多形式的糖,而且你不知道它的存在

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Finally a canal company official showed up and set fire to sheaves of green corn to literally smoke the boatsmen out of the tunnel.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29