Corn,or maize,is mostly fed to animals or made into ethanol fuel and high-fructose corn syrup.
VOA: special.2010.12.07
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
Here's another example where you have high fructose corn syrup is the source of sugar is in ketchup.
这还有一个例子,番茄酱中糖的来源是高果糖玉米糖浆
Corn,which is also called maize, is the other pillar of American agriculture.
VOA: standard.2010.02.01
So, he started assuming that what they were doing is making the corn come.
所以它便认为,必须展现某种特定的行为才能得到食物
And unlike corn, algae is not grown for food.
VOA: standard.2009.09.02
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
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
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
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
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
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