时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英语新闻


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   LOS ANGELES — Southern California, where many fruits and vegetables for the country are grown, is experiencing a recording-breaking drought, which could impact world food prices in 2014.


  'Not looking good'
  Andy Domenigoni is a fourth generation grower in Riverside, California. He says there are good years and bad years, and this year things are not looking good.
  “I have some fields that we planted almost a month ago that are still not out of the ground,” Domenigoni said.
  He says normally it takes five to seven days for the wheat to sprout 2, but not this year. He points to a brown field behind him.
  “This field was planted two weeks ago and it is just bone dry. The seed is not in any moisture," he said. "It can’t sprout. We got to wait for the rain.”
  Waiting for rain
  Domenigoni is not the only one waiting for rain. The western United States has been in a drought that has been building for more than a decade, according to climatologist Bill Patzert of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  “Ranchers in the West are selling off their livestock," Patzert said. "Farmers all over the Southwest, from Texas to Oregon, are fallowing in their fields because of a lack of water. For farmers and ranchers, this is a painful drought.”
  It may be painful for those who depend on rain, but Patzert says drought is actually the norm 1 in the history of the American West, with some dry periods that have lasted up to 50 years. In Southern California, this drought is turning into one of the worst in recorded history.
  “Historically, in 135 years of record-keeping, this has been the driest," Patzert said. "Since July 1, we’ve had less than an inch of rain. In January, which is historically our wettest month, we’ve had zero rainfall. In my lifetime, I’ve never seen anything like this.”
  Greater impact
  A drought such as the one in California has a greater impact now than it did 50 years ago because of the growth in population and economic development. The state is the biggest food producer in the United States in terms of dollars of produce sold.
  “The short-term impact is going to be higher food prices," said Milt McGiffen, a field crop expert at the University of California. "The longer-term impact is going to be you’re just not going to have as much production in the country. It’s part of an overall trend in the next 50 years.”
  He says as the population increases, the amount for water per person is decreasing.
  “Either you’ll find a technological 3 way around it or enough people will die, and the population will crash and it’ll take care of it," McGiffen said. "So, in cold hard terms, that’s exactly what you’re looking at.”
  And what happens in California does not just affect the United States.
  ”Here in California, we’re the breadbasket of the United States, but also we export tremendous volumes of fruits, vegetables and even cattle overseas," Patzert said. "And so when these terrible droughts hit and production drops, this echoes 4 around the globe.”
  According to the United Nations, global food prices for 2013 were among the highest on record. Food experts in California won't know how much the drought in the western U.S. will affect the price of food in 2014 until later this year. As for farmers, experts agree there is no quick fix for their need for water.

n.标准,规范,平均数
  • Of his age,the child is above the norm in arithmetic.在他那个年龄,这个孩子的算术能力是超过标准的。
  • These events were aberrations from the norm.这些事件不合常规。
n.芽,萌芽;vt.使发芽,摘去芽;vi.长芽,抽条
  • When do deer first sprout horns?鹿在多大的时候开始长出角?
  • It takes about a week for the seeds to sprout.这些种子大约要一周后才会发芽。
adj.技术的;工艺的
  • A successful company must keep up with the pace of technological change.一家成功的公司必须得跟上技术变革的步伐。
  • Today,the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements.当今, 随着科技进步,生活节奏不断增快。
回声,共鸣( echo的名词复数 ); (言语、作风、思想等的)重复; 重复者; [无线电]回波
  • The sound echoes back from the walls. 这声音从墙壁发出回声。
  • I could hear the echoes in this temple. 我在这座庙里能听到回声。
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