每年有10%的作物受损于一种叫做玉米根虫的害虫。

Each year ten percent of the crop is lost to a pest called corn rootworm.

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面粉主要来自于香蒲和蕨类植物，这些植物的根富含淀粉，有点像土豆。

The flour grains came mostly from cattails and ferns, plants whose roots are rich in starch, kind of like a potato.

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大头菜是卷心菜和西兰花的近亲，是一种类似于芜菁的根类蔬菜，有淡绿色或紫色和白色的条纹。

A cousin of cabbage and broccoli, kohlrabi is a turnip-like root vegetable that is either light green or purple and white striped.

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It's when I'm weary of considerations And life is too much like a pathless wood ; Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open.

那是每逢我厌倦于操心世事,而人生太像一片没有小径的森林,在里面摸索，一头撞在蛛网上，只感到验上又热辣，又痒痒，忽然，一根嫩枝迎面打来,那一只给打中了的眼睛疼得直掉泪。

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The city, as Aristotle understands, will always exist in a world with other cities or other states, based on different principles that might be hostile to one's own.

城市，如亚里士多德所认为，将永远会,和其它城市或国家同时存在，根于不同的管理原则,可能还会对自己人怀有敌意。

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Well,here's one other that you might not have thought of, and that is that most of the chords in rock music in particular tend to be root-position chords, and for that reason they're easier to hear.

还有另外一点也许大家还没有想到，那就是摇滚乐的主要和弦尤其倾向于变成根和弦，因此他们听起来也更加容易。

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