An ounce of wisdom is worth a million tons of books.

一盎司的智慧抵得上百万吨的书本。

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Nearly every year, it falls short, usually by about a million tons.

但是每一年粮食都会出现短缺，缺口约100万吨左右。

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Though technically feasible budging such a hefty target - with a mass in excess of a million tons - would not be easy.

即使技术上可行，移动一个如此巨大的目标——远超过一百万吨——也将是不易的。

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The Philippines this week said it is cutting rice imports because of high prices, even though the country lost more than a million tons of grain to typhoons this year.

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Iron or steel, 800 million tons, almost a billion tons of steel.

铁或钢，每年8亿吨，几乎接近10亿的钢产量。

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"The present canal has a total capacity of about three hundred and forty million tons a year that it can handle, that's the maximum capacity.

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When prices started dropping in 2000, the government eventually ended up with a million tons of sugar as loan repayments, which it sold off at a loss.

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Commercial farming is a major industry in South Africa -- it distributes produce all over the world while Johannesburg's fruit market sells about a million tons of goods every year.

CNN: Agriculture must play 'critical role' in Africa's future

More than a million tons of wheat in state-run warehouses from previous bumper crops is likely to go bad because the government has failed to distribute it over the past two to three years.

WSJ: Indian Grain May Rot After Bumper Harvest