考研Planning ahead should eliminate wastage, but if you have surplus vegetables you'll do a vegetable soup, and all fruits threatening to "go off" will be cooked or juice.

提前计划应该可以避免浪费，但如果你有多余的蔬菜，你会做蔬菜汤，所有可能“变质”的水果都会被煮熟或榨汁。

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六级Of the produce that does appear in the supermarket, commonly used sales promotions frequently encourage customers to purchase excessive quantities which, in the case of perishable foodstuffs, inevitably generate wastage in the home.

在超市中确实出现的农产品中，常用的促销活动经常鼓励顾客购买过多的农产品，而对于易腐食品来说，这不可避免地会在家中造成浪费。

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六级In less-developed countries, such as those of sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, wastage tends to occur primarily at the farmer-producer end of the supply chain.

在欠发达国家，如撒哈拉以南非洲和东南亚国家，浪费往往主要发生在供应链的农民-生产者端。

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六级This level of wastage is a tragedy that cannot continue if we are to succeed in the challenge of sustainably meeting our future food demands

如果我们要成功应对可持续满足我们未来粮食需求的挑战，这种浪费水平将是一场悲剧，不能继续下去

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六级Since much of this energy comes from the utilisation of fossil fuels, wastage of food potentially contributes to unnecessary global warming as well as inefficient resource utilisation.

由于这些能源的大部分来自化石燃料的利用，粮食浪费可能导致不必要的全球变暖以及资源利用效率低下。

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六级This level of wastage is a tragedy that cannot continue if we are to succeed in the challenge of sustainably meeting our future food demands.

如果我们要成功地应对可持续满足我们未来粮食需求的挑战，这种浪费水平将是一场悲剧，不能继续下去。

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六级Yet due to poor practices in harvesting, storage and transportation, as well as market and consumer wastage, it is estimated that 30-50% of all food produced never reaches a human stomach.

然而，由于在收获、储存和运输方面的不良做法，以及市场和消费者的浪费，据估计，生产的所有食品中有30-50%从未到达人类的胃。

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六级In the future, more effective washing techniques, management procedures, and recycling and purification of water will be needed to reduce wastage

未来，需要更有效的清洗技术、管理程序以及水的回收和净化，以减少浪费

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考研For example, they may encourage research in various ways, including the setting up of their own research centers; they may alter the structure of education, or interfere in order to reduce the wastage of natural resources or tap resources hitherto unexploited; or they may cooperate directly in the growing number of international projects related to science, economics and industry.

例如，他们可以通过各种方式鼓励研究，包括建立自己的研究中心；它们可能会改变教育结构，或进行干预，以减少自然资源的浪费或挖掘迄今未开发的资源；或者他们可以在越来越多的与科学、经济和工业相关的国际项目中直接合作。

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