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

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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

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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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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

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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

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