Food supplies dropped. There was little to eat except corn bread and the meat of mules.
VOA: special.2009.11.19
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
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,
By two thousand five, they say,farms in northern China produced about the same amount of corn per hectare as farms in the American Midwest.
VOA: special.2009.07.28
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
Corn harvests remain small. The researchers say farming methods in Sub-Saharan Africa need to improve or else poor quality soil will increase rural poverty.
VOA: special.2009.07.28
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
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
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
Native American tribes once grew vegetables like beans and corn throughout the Chesapeake coastal plain.
VOA: special.2009.10.06
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
Snack foods made with corn are a six-billion-dollar industry in the United States.
VOA: special.2011.03.08
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
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
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
"But it did cause major disruptions in the availability of food-grade corn.
VOA: special.2011.03.08
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
It tastes much sweeter then the starchier corn of the past.
VOA: special.2010.11.23
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
The women ground corn for bread, cooked and made pottery.
VOA: special.2010.07.05
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
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
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
Some energy experts and environmentalists have expressed skepticism about the benefits of biofuels, especially ethanol produced from corn.
VOA: standard.2009.09.02
But he started--the pigeons started to think, effectively, what was it I did just before that last piece of corn came?
那些鸽子会想,上一粒谷粒掉过来之前我做了什么
an endearing addition to the distant mountains,corn fields and lake a few dozen kilometers outside bustling Beijing.
VOA: standard.2010.08.03
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
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
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
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
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