Sometimes plants can't grow in a country because of bad weather or disease, so farmers need new seeds.
有时,由于恶劣天气或疾病,植物无法在一个国家生长,因此农民需要新的种子。
This in itself, of course, need not be a bad thing.
当然,这本身未必是一件坏事。
But even if he proposes good policies, the fact that Mr.Obama feels the need to wrap these policies in bad metaphors is a sad commentary on the state of our discourse.
然而,即便提出很好的政策,奥巴马感到有必要用这种不要词汇包装这一事实本身就是对我们当前讨论话题的状态一种不幸的注释。
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