There was enough rain. Huge crops of wheat and corn were produced.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

The unsaturated fats are the corn, soy bean, safflower, sunflower, cottonseed oils, and fats that you get from seafood.

不饱和脂肪是从,玉米,大豆,红花,葵花,棉籽油以及海鲜中提取出的脂肪

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And then he does the line from the Kellogg's Corn Flakes commercials, you know,

然后他说了凯洛格玉米片广告的代言人的台词，

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Food supplies dropped. There was little to eat except corn bread and the meat of mules.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

I was bobbing my head, so maybe I better bob my head again and sure enough another piece of corn comes.

我一直在摇头晃脑,那我最好继续摇头晃脑,这样的话我就能再得到一粒谷粒

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He and former American President Jimmy Carter worked with the Sasakawa Africa Association to help increase the quality and production of corn on the continent.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

The corn to ethanol conversion in the United States, and other things like that has really changed the world landscape in a lot of interesting ways.

在美国,很多类似于玉米制乙醇的技术,正以有趣的方式,改变着我们的世界

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

For example,companies like Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta have been developing corn with reduced water needs.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

What he concluded was, these pigeons were trying to figure out what makes those pieces of corn come and they started to think well,they had to get the interval between corns right to make this work.

他总结出这些鸽子都在绞尽脑汁,想知道玉米从那来的,它们只能利用,那15秒的间隔去想清楚这个问题

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

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Okay. Then you can look at how many things like cows are raised in the United States, and how many acres there are of carrots, or wheat, or corn, or whatever it is.

好了,然后就可以看看,比如,美国养了多少头牛,种植了多少英亩的胡萝卜,小麦,玉米,或其他东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Corn,or maize,is mostly fed to animals or made into ethanol fuel and high-fructose corn syrup.

VOA: special.2010.12.07

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

For example, companies like Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta are developing corn with reduced water needs.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

It says the price index contained this amount of beef, this amount of sheep wool, this amount of sole leather, and this amount of corn; that was the first consumer price index ever used for financial contracts.

指数中包括这些数量的牛肉,这些数量的羊毛,这些数量的鞋底皮,这些数量的玉米,这是在金融合约里出现的,第一个消费者物价指数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There were potatoes,fresh corn, apple pies,hot bread,sweet pickles, bread and butter and honey.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Another is how much it's processed and how if you take things that started out as food like wheat or corn, and then they're processed many different ways, and things are added to them or done to them that change their chemical properties, does that affect whether we would consider them food?

另一个是它们被加工过程和程度,比如对于用来食用的麦子和玉米,有很多种加工方式,可以向它们添加一些东西,或进行一些加工去改变它们的化学性质,这会影响我们去判断它们是否为食品吗

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

John worked hard that summer planting corn and potatoes for his family.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

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

The women ground corn for bread, cooked and made pottery.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

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

They grew crops of corn, beans and squash.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

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

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

Our hypothesis is that in the United States it's less expensive to sweeten things than it is elsewhere in the world, and part of that is because of high fructose corn syrup that we'll talk about later in the class.

我们假设,在美国,让食物变甜的成本比在其他国家要低,其中一部分是因为高果糖玉米糖浆,稍后我们会讲一下这个糖浆问题

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

But farmers had learned the hard way they couldn't rely on just one crop, so they planted more corn, peaches,and figs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Jatropha curcas can yield four times more biofuel per hectare than soybeans and more than 10 times that of corn.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Some energy experts and environmentalists have expressed skepticism about the benefits of biofuels, especially ethanol produced from corn.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

High fructose corn syrup and other forms of sugar are routinely added to processed food and many beverages.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25