IRRI researcher Melissa Fitzgerald says finding the genes which control starch release is just the first step toward creating a grain that people will accept as part of their diet.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

in some ways, one has to admit also there maybe a grain, if not more than a grain of truth in what he seems to be saying.

我们多么不喜欢他，但必需承认,他可能有点儿道理，但就那么点儿,关于他所说的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Alright. So take it with a grain of salt.

好，我们就说到这里。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Researchers compared the use of fertilizer in three areas that grow maize as a major grain: China,Kenya and the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

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

A crowd of about 1,000 marched to a nearby store, broke into it, and destroyed large amounts of flour and grain.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And even in the conservative grain-farming states, two hundred thousand farmers joined a group that called for major economic changes.

VOA: special.2010.12.09

Later on when times are more secure, there's trade for grain as well for everything else, but when you're settling a place in the first place, you can't rely on somebody bringing it to you.

在之后相对安定的年代,有了粮食及其他各种物品交易,但当你刚开始在某地定居时,并不能指望有人为你供给必需品

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Armstrong began to describe what he saw: "The surface appears to be very, very fine grain,like a powder.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Like Ceres there is sitting on a McCormick reaper, which is the new way for reaping grain quickly.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Farmers had a new way to send wheat and grain to ports.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Australia is a major food exporter, and if drought dramatically cuts yields, that could cause global prices for grain,meat and other foods to rise.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Russia's Grain Producers Union recently forecast a 20 percent drop in the nation's grain harvest.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Since 2008 the United States has not sold a single grain of rice to Cuba.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The Philippines this week said it is cutting rice imports because of high prices, even though the country lost more than a million tons of grain to typhoons this year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

In the year 2000, the United States did ease the agricultural export ban to Cuba, but a later tightening of policy, to require advance cash payments, choked off Cuban purchases of US grain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"And so once we understand the genetics, we can try and just take those particular genes and work with popular varieties of rice to cross those particular genes into a popular variety and still maintain the expected cooking and eating qualities of the grain."

VOA: standard.2010.06.25