Roughly one-half of the world's population, including virtually all of East and Southeast Asia also, is wholly dependent on rice to be its staple food.
世界上大约一半的人口，包括几乎所有的东亚和东南亚国家，都完全以大米作为主食。
Rice is the staple food of more than half the world's population.
大米是世界上半数以上人口的主食。
Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.
研究人员说，大麦是一个意外发现：这种作物生长在欧亚大陆西部，直到大约两千年前才成为中国中部地区的主食。
Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2, 000 years ago, according to the researchers.
研究人员说，大麦是一个意外的发现：这种作物在欧亚大陆西部被引进，直到大约2000年前才成为中国中部地区的主食。
That helps explain why "ramen", as they are called in Japanese, have become a staple on the world's food aid lists.
这也就解释了为什么“拉面”（它们的日语名字）成为了世界粮食援助清单上的主食。
Wheat may be Pakistan's staple food, but milky chai (tea) is the national drink.
麦子可能是巴基斯坦的主要食物，但是奶茶则是国民饮品。
This is because their staple food, milkweed, is being used more and more as a garden ornament.
这是因为它们的主要食物乳草被越来越多的用于园林装饰。
In the past, farming was almost entirely a subsistence affair with little grown except for maize, and the granaries visible from the road show that this remains the staple food.
过去，农业几乎全部是为了糊口，种植的几乎全部是玉米。路边可见的谷仓说明，玉米依然是这里的主食。
"Cries Mamie Ballo, a stout, middle-aged woman wearing a traditional Liberian lappa, touting the nation's staple food at a bustling market near central Monrovia."
一位穿着传统的利比里亚披巾，身材壮硕的中年妇女，玛米。巴罗喊叫着，在蒙罗维亚中心附近的繁华市场上兜售着这个国家的主食。
“Potato is a staple food in many countries,” Subhra Chakraborty,one of the researchers, told HT. “But the problem is that it does not have much protein.”
“土豆是很多国家的主要食品，”研究者之一SubhraChakraborty告诉记者，“但是问题是土豆并不含有很多的蛋白质。”
For people in sub-Saharan Africa, where white corn is a staple food, substituting this biotech variety could help them meet their daily recommended intake of vitamin A and folate.
生活在非洲下撒哈拉地区的人们以白玉米为主食，改换成这一生物工程品种可以帮助他们获得每日所需的维生素和叶酸。
Rice production, the staple food of most of Asia, is already moving northwards, forcing millions of people to change ways of living that have sustained them for centuries.
亚洲大部分地区的主食作物水稻生产已经向北转移，这迫使数百万人口改变持续了数百年的生活方式。
米是我们的主食。
That newcomer, brown streak, is now ravaging cassava crops in a great swath around Lake Victoria, threatening millions of East Africans who grow the tuber as their staple food.
来势汹汹的褐条病毒现在正在维多利亚湖沿岸的大片农田中肆虐，并威胁到了数百万东非人的口粮，因为木薯是他们的日常主食。
Insufficient ingestion of staple food may thus impair memory.
故主食摄取不足可能对记忆力造成损害。
THE soaring price of rice and dwindling stockpiles of Asia’s staple food are causing anxiety across the continent.
米价的上扬以及储备的短缺在以米为主食的亚洲引发了普遍的不安。
大米是日本人的主食。
Recent us medical research suggests that refusing staple food may lead to memory loss because brain cells energized by glucose cannot store it and must rely on a continuous supply via the blood.
而美国一项医学研究指出，不摄取主食可能造成失忆，因为脑细胞以葡萄糖作为能量，但脑细胞无法贮存葡萄糖，需透过血液持续供应。
In Shanxi, flour serves as a staple food, snack and even art.
在山西小麦面粉被作为一种固定的食材小吃甚至是艺术。
The virus, called ringspot, has decimated nearly all of Thailand's papaya, a staple food that many Thai people eat three times a day.
这种环斑病毒几乎摧毁了全泰国的番木瓜，而它是很多泰国人的一日三餐。
玉米，就是黑熊最主要的口粮。
Concern is growing among Asian consumers that the region's staple food will no longer be affordable for low-income families.
亚洲的消费者越来越担心低收入家庭将买不起大米。
Concern is growing among Asian consumers that the region's staple food will no longer be affordable for low-income families.
亚洲的消费者越来越担心低收入家庭将买不起大米。
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