高考China's approach to protecting its environment while feeding its citizens " offers useful lessons for agriculture and food policymakers worldwide.

中国在保护环境的同时养活其公民的做法“为全世界的农业和粮食政策制定者提供了有益的教训。

四级For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.

多年来，我一直在研究全球农业、人口、环境和经济趋势及其相互作用。

六级Whether the biotech industry should take priority over agriculture.

生物技术产业是否应该优先于农业。

六级There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

领导这项研究的Liqa Raschid Sally说，废水农业在帮助和伤害大量城市消费者方面有很大的潜力。

六级But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling t

但也有许多通过破坏环境来增加财富的例子，无论是在世界的富裕地区还是贫穷地区，无论是通过不受管制的矿物开采、农业用水的急剧增加、刀耕火种的耕作还是化石燃料的大量消耗

六级In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries

为了开始应对这一挑战，该机构建议：联合国粮食及农业组织与国际工程界合作，确保发达国家政府实施向新兴发展中国家转让工程知识、设计诀窍和适当技术的计划

六级The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture won't fund it, the National Institutes of Health won't fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said.

米罗诺夫说，新成立的国家食品和农业研究所不会为其提供资金，国家卫生研究院不会为其提供资金，而美国宇航局只提供了短暂的资金。

高考But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players.

但在农业领域，小农可以从主要参与者中获益。

六级But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling ( ' , 大量消耗) transport.

但也有许多例子表明，无论是通过不受管制的矿物开采、农业用水的大量使用、刀耕火种的耕作还是化石燃料的大量消耗，世界上的贫富地区都有通过破坏环境来增加财富的例子，大量消耗) 运输。

高考The author mentions car industry at the beginning of the passage to introduce a special feature of agriculture.

作者在文章的开头提到了汽车工业，以介绍农业的一个特点。

高考The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

中国农业部发现，从2005年政府开始土壤测试计划，向农民提供具体的肥料建议到2011年，化肥使用量下降了770万吨。

六级Reading magazines like The Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agriculture.

读过《牧民》、《牧场主》和《放牧》等杂志后，他迷上了以草为食的农业理念。

四级The United States Department of Agriculture and the food industry collect sales statistics and keep accurate records

美国农业部和食品工业部收集销售统计数据并保持准确记录

六级given the moth's ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria's minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may "create serious problems for food security" in the country.

尼日利亚农业部长奥杜·奥格贝（Audu Ogbeh）警告说，这种害虫可能会给该国的粮食安全带来严重问题，因为这种蛾子也能攻击辣椒和土豆等作物。

六级Irrigation is the primary agricultural use of human waste in the developing world.

在发展中国家，灌溉是人类排泄物的主要农业用途。

六级While farming is often difficult for both the body and mine, Sanchez says he and many of his fellow young farmers are motivated by desire to set a new standard for agriculture.

桑切斯说，虽然耕种对身体和我来说都很困难，但他和他的许多年轻农民伙伴都是出于建立新的农业标准的愿望。

六级Young farmers are guided by their love for agriculture and aided by their knowledge of technology to find inexpensive and appropriately sized tools.

年轻的农民以他们对农业的热爱为指导，以他们的技术知识为帮助，找到价格低廉、尺寸合适的工具。

六级We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

我们需要在地球上的大部分地区接受这一事实，因此，很少或根本不经处理的废物将被用于农业，这是有充分理由的。

四级Agricultural workers in green tea fields near Mt.

山附近绿茶田的农业工人。

六级When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

当这些水用于农业灌溉时，农民有可能吸收致病细菌，生吃和未洗农产品的消费者也是如此。

六级It's an approach not dictated by the confines of conventional large scale agriculture lead by international corporations.

这是一种不受国际公司主导的传统大规模农业限制的方法。

六级Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70% of global fresh water consumption.

农业是水密集型行业，占全球淡水消耗量的近70%。

六级"There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

领导这项研究的liqa Raschid Sally说：“废水农业在帮助和伤害大量城市消费者方面有很大的潜力。”。

高考The loss of glaciers there due to global warming represents an enormous threat to agriculture.

由于全球变暖，那里冰川的消失对农业构成了巨大威胁。

六级About 70% of this is consumed by the global agriculture sector, and the level of use will continue to rise over the coming decades

其中约70%由全球农业部门消费，在未来几十年中，消费水平将继续上升

四级since African agriculture is still broadly unproductive, food is imported, consuming a portion of revenue.

由于非洲农业仍然基本上没有生产能力，粮食是进口的，消耗了一部分收入。