Also, the tubers can be left underground for up to three years, so if drought kills a corn or bean crop, the farmer's family can still fend off starvation.

而且，木薯的块茎可以被埋在地下，三年都不会腐烂，如果干旱使玉米或豆类作物绝收，农民们依然可以依靠木薯熬过饥荒。

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About a fifth of each annual watermelon crop is left in the field because of surface blemishes or because they are misshapen.

大约每五年西瓜作物会残留在地理因为他们表面瑕疵或者畸形。

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As a result, world importers are left with the United States as essentially the only major source of soybeans until the 2010 South American crop becomes available around March.

其结果是在2010年度南美作物在三月份上市前，全球的进口商基本上只能把美国当作唯一的大豆主要来源。

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Notably, Zimbabwe has unearthed a fine crop of young seam bowlers, while Bangladesh will be left ruing the way in which the same old problems with its batting resurfaced with a vengeance.

WSJ: Bangladesh Cricket Team Bruised After Tour of Zimbabwe

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - The most extensive drought in five decades has left corn plants withered and dying, and crop yields in the largest producing states will be much lower than experts have forecast, scouts said on Friday as they completed a U.S. Midwest crop tour.

MSN: Drought slashes Midwest corn crop

So hailstones might destroy a crop in one locality when another, 20 miles away, is left entirely untouched.

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