基本食物紧缺。

Basic foodstuffs were in short supply.

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大米是世界上最常见的基本食物之一。

Rice is one of the most commonly eaten basic foods around the world.

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鱼类的生命周期使其成为一种人类的基本食物。

Their life cycle helps man provide himself with a basic food—fish.

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But beyond the basic needs, once our basic needs are met and that means food, shelter, basic education.

但超出基本需要后，当我们的基本需要得到满足，即有食物，住所，基础教育。

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What happens in the intestine is that food gets broken down into constituent molecules, some of those molecules are absorbed into our bodies.

在肠道中,食物必须分解成基本的组成分子,其中一些分子才能被我们的身体吸收

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Most everybody understands the basic concept of what a calorie is: you eat food, it delivers something that can affect your weight, and that something is divided into units called calories.

大部分人所理解的基本定义是,人们吃食物,其中某些物质影响体重,这种物质划分为小单位后称之为卡路里

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