ailed Policies Lead to Food Shortages 英文翻译.pptVIP

* The food crisis of 2007-08, although scary at the time, was relatively mild by comparison. 尽管07到08年的那次粮食危机引起很大恐慌，但相对现在而言还是比较轻微的。 scary：adj. 提心吊胆的；引起惊慌的；胆小的 运用词类转移法，形容词→动词 * * Prices for wheat, rice and maize—the staple foods that provide well over half the world populations energy intake directly and a good deal more indirectly via livestock products—rose 96.7% between 2006 and 2008, not approaching the spikes in the mid-1970s when corrected for inflation. 句子结构分析，找出主谓宾 Prices rose 小麦、大米、玉米为世界大半人口直接提供能量摄入以及人们间接通过以其为原料的农畜产品来获得更多的能量摄入。这些主食价格在2006年到2008年期间上涨了96.7%，但是还没达到20世纪70年代中期的顶峰——通货膨胀被调整后的那段时期。 * * Yet here we are just a few years later, talking about food prices again. 然而仅仅过了几年，粮食价格再次引起了人们的热议。 * * Sudden spikes in food prices also have a political dimension. 政治维度也是粮食价格的突然飙升的一个原因。 政治维度是指从政治的特征、形式、体制以及与经济、法律、道德等社会现象的关系等不同层次、视角的阐述。 * * Nothing can bring angry people into the streets faster and more spontaneously than a rapid run-up in the costs of food staples in urban markets. 没有什么能比城市市场主要粮食价格的急剧增长更能令人们愤怒，并且快速自发地涌进大街上抗议。 angry：运用词类转移法：形容词→动词 run-up：抬高；急剧增长；激烈上升 * * Thats why politicians in many developing countries are highly sensitive to the level and rate of change in food prices 这就是为什么发展中国家的政治家对食物价格变化的幅度和频率如此敏感。 * . . * Failed Policies Lead to Food Shortagesfood：食物，食品，粮食农业政策不力，全球粮食短缺农业政策不力导致全球粮食短缺 * * World food prices are pushing higher—the United Nations overall food index shows a 28.3% annual increase, with cereals up 44.1%—sparking concerns that a new food crisis may be emerging, just three years after the last one. 全球粮食价格持续飙升，联合国粮食总指标显示，粮食价格年均上涨28.3%，其中谷类上涨44.1%，这引发人们对可能会出现的新一轮粮食危机的担忧,尽管距离上一次粮食危机仅三年。 * * World food prices are pushing higher—the United Nations overall food index shows a 28.3% annual increase, with cereals up 44.1%—sparking concerns that a new food crisis may be emerging, just three years after the last one. push:推动；增加；推行； pushing higher:飙升;抬高;抬升;推高; spark：导致；引发；爆发；触发；