And meanwhile, land used to grow biofuel feedstock is land not available to grow food, so subsidies to biofuels are a major factor in the food crisis.

与此同时，用来生长生物燃料作物的土地不能用来生长粮食，所以对生物燃料的补贴是这场粮食危机的主要原因。

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Already, places like Orange County that used to be very white and reliably Republican are becoming less so as they grow more ethnically diverse.

已然，许多诸如奥兰治县那样，过去由可信赖的白人共和党人占主体的地方已经变了，变得更加种族多样化。

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Nearly 20% of all Saudi oil money in the 1970s and 80s was used to provide clean water to grow wheat and other crops in regions that would not naturally be able to do so.

在20世纪七八十年代，沙特阿拉伯大约20%的石油收入用在了小麦等作物的灌溉上，这一地区本不适合这些农作物的生长。

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Grapes grew further north than they do now for example, Greenland (the warmth extended that far at least) could be used in part to grow wheat and so on.

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So, too, is cotton: it used to grow on big, disease-prone bushes in the parched north-east, and was hand-picked.

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Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman seemed to grow a little more slowly into his character, but only because we are used to seeing Ian Holm for so long in the The Lord of the Rings film credits.

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