We are as dependent on our frying pans as sheep are on their internal fellow travellers, for if you eat nothing but raw food you will starve to death.

我们依赖于我们的煎锅就像绵羊依赖它们体内的寄生虫一样，如果你只吃生食，你就会饿死。

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Roughly one-half of the world's population, including virtually all of East and Southeast Asia also, is wholly dependent on rice to be its staple food.

世界上大约一半的人口，包括几乎所有的东亚和东南亚国家，都完全以大米作为主食。

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Sea cows were totally dependent on kelp for food, and within a decade of the onset of otter hunting, Steller noted that the islands' sea cows appeared malnourished.

海牛完全以海藻为食，在捕猎水獭开始的十年里，斯特勒注意到，岛上的海牛似乎营养不良。

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Thornton is encouraged by the response to the law from timber exporters and forest-dependent communities who look to their local forests for fuel,food and livelihood.

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A economists say higher food prices will only increase the problems faced by the region's poor, who are highly dependent on rice as a staple food.

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"The bulk of our food production on this planet is dependent to some extent or another on oil or products of oil, so this goes right to the heart of,frankly, the way our society functions,"

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The people most at risk perhaps are those who live in the central highlands, where 500, 000 people are dependent on food aid.

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With the crop losses from these most recent storms, Haiti will have little choice but to remain heavily dependent on food imports for at least another year.

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We also know, anecdotally, of how, in the past decade, millions more Americans have become dependent on food stamps and on jobless benefits (not just for the six-month normal duration, but now for as long as two years).

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