World corn prices have also increased this year.

世界玉米价格今年也提高了。

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The spread of New World crops like corn and the potato, along withthe discovery of chemical fertilizers, helped banish starvation in Europe.

新世界玉米和土豆之类农作物的普及，加上化肥的发现，帮助欧洲人消除了饥饿。

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That's because retail prices for cereal, eggs, cheese and meat generally lag by several months or longer world prices for wheat, corn and soybeans - the raw ingredients of so much of our food.

这是因为相对于我们食物中的原材料——小麦，玉米和大豆的价格变化，谷物，鸡蛋，奶酪和肉类的零售价格通常会滞后数月或者更长。

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The corn to ethanol conversion in the United States, and other things like that has really changed the world landscape in a lot of interesting ways.

在美国,很多类似于玉米制乙醇的技术,正以有趣的方式,改变着我们的世界

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That meant that people growing corn were less-- less vulnerable to having things wipe out entire crops because there were different types of crops planted around the world, so the world corn supply would never be threatened by anything.

也就是说只要人们种植玉米,整个粮食体系就不可能那么轻易被摧毁,由于世界各地种植着不同品种的玉米,世界玉米供应不会受到任何影响

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Some of that is being forced by the United States and the corn to ethanol conversion program that has pushed up the price of corn a great deal, pushed down the world supply of corn for eating, and pushed up world prices.

美国在一定程度上推动了这件事,玉米向乙醇转化项目,大大抬高了玉米价格,削减了可供食用玉米的供应量,世界玉米的价格就提高了

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