North American ethanol is mostly made from corn (maize), which is less efficient, and often produced in distilleries powered by coal; it is thus neither as cheap nor as environmentally benign.

北美的乙醇大多数来自谷物(玉米)，效率较低而且常常在以煤为动力的蒸馏厂里生产出来；所以它既不便宜也不环保。

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The following spring, local Wampanoag Indians taught the colonists how to grow corn (maize) and other local crops, and also helped the newcomers master hunting and fishing.

第二年春天，万帕诺亚格印第安人向殖民地居民传授了种植玉米和其他地方作物的技巧，并教会新移民如何狩猎和捕鱼。

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If corn (maize) prices return to more "normal" levels as a result, the Kansas Fed warns that farm prices could fall by 20%.

堪萨斯城联邦储备银行警告，若玉米价格最终回归到更加“正常”的水平，农地价格可能下跌20%。

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Corn,or maize,is mostly fed to animals or made into ethanol fuel and high-fructose corn syrup.

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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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Corn,which is also called maize, is the other pillar of American agriculture.

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By March 1988, the government owned a vast 1.8 billion bushels of corn (maize), roughly a year's supply.

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Meanwhile, the relative price of corn (maize) to rice, which is much more favoured, has jumped by half.

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Favoured commodities such as corn (maize), wheat, soyabeans and cotton will receive a per-acre revenue guarantee of about 90% of the previous five years' returns.

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