"And,when you get the sense of cooperation and common goals, common purposes among the people here today, you cannot help but see that this is something positive growing out of something that is such a tragedy."

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

That meant that people growing corn were less-- less vulnerable to having things wipe out entire crops because there were different types of crops planted around the world, so the world corn supply would never be threatened by anything.

也就是说只要人们种植玉米,整个粮食体系就不可能那么轻易被摧毁,由于世界各地种植着不同品种的玉米,世界玉米供应不会受到任何影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

If you think about what ancient food gathering habits used to be like, you see things like this where people are out gathering food that is growing naturally, and you can think about what would-- what sort of conditions this would create and what kind of hardships it would create.

如果你想知道古代食物采集的习惯,请看这张图,人类都在野外采集自然生长的食物,你可以设想到,条件有多恶劣,生存有多艰难

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Industry was growing quickly -- but not quickly enough to give jobs to all the farmers out of work.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

With such growing clout, some believe the Obama administration has gone out of its way to avoid offending Beijing.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

What that means,he says,is that many young people are missing out on career opportunities in some of the fastest-growing job markets in the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

from getting shut out of Brazil, a growing market for American exports.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28