40年前，出口或进口的过程涉及到许多操作步骤，这可能会导致一部分货物在运输过程中受损或被盗。

Forty years ago, the process of exporting or importing involved a great many stages of handling, which risked portions of the shipment being damaged or stolen along the way.

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富国从进口印度尼西亚木材中获利。

Rich countries benefited from importing Indonesia's timber.

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在20世纪20年代，欧洲国家开始从第一次世界大战中恢复过来，并制定紧缩计划减少进口，对美国农产品的需求下降了。

In the 1920s demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and instituted austerity programs to reduce their imports.

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So they had to import that to make their goods as saleable as they wanted and so on.

因此他们需要进口香料,以使他们的货物如预想中可供出售

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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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