时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2008年


英语课

For some time now, there has been a growing market in Britain for organic food. But with the credit crunch 1 forcing thrifty 2 shoppers to cut back and with food prices generally rocketing, could our love for organics be starting to wilt 3?


 


During her pregnancy 4 with Amelia, Pen Turnbull made sure every item of food she bought was organic. But recently, like other shoppers we spoke 5 to, that’s changed.


 


“Especially with sort of store cupped-type foods, so cereals and honey and things like that. I’m no longer buying organic and trying to keep the fruit and vegetables mainly organic.” 


 


“And anecdotally for your all friends, people you know, other moms, is it a similar scenario 6?”


 


“Yeah, definitely in the playgroups and NCT meetings that everybody’s starting to notice the difference.”


 


Figures compiled for Sky News show the organics market has grown steadily 7 over the last decade. This year, April is the first month to show a downturn on the year before. But what will be really telling is what happens to organic sales in the months to come.


 


The fact is organic food is generally more expensive. Take chicken for example. We worked out the average price of two chicken breasts weighing 500 grams from the Big Four supermarkets. The organic option would cost you 8.45 pounds, the next best thing; the premium 8 version would set you back 6.22 pounds. While the value chicken, one of the meal stuff, would cost 3.68 pounds. So have the super markets noticed any difference of the tilts 9?


 


“I think the interesting thing to watch over the next year is the rate of that growth compared to previous years, where we are seeing price becoming a much bigger factor than it's been in previous years.”


 


Advocates of the organic movement say retailers 10 have yet to report any falloff in sales. And despite the critics, they believe organic farming can still feed the world.


 


“The main thing that's driving up the price of food in the long run is the price of oil, because most food is produced from oil-based fertilizer. Organic food's produced from the sun’s energy. So actually, organic food is less prone 11 to these price rises than non-organic food.”


 


But with food inflation forecast to rise even higher, the proof in the organic pudding will be what happens at the check-outs over the next few months.


 


Catherine Jacob, Sky News.


 



1 crunch
n.关键时刻;艰难局面;v.发出碎裂声
  • If it comes to the crunch they'll support us.关键时刻他们是会支持我们的。
  • People who crunch nuts at the movies can be very annoying.看电影时嘎吱作声地嚼干果的人会使人十分讨厌。
2 thrifty
adj.节俭的;兴旺的;健壮的
  • Except for smoking and drinking,he is a thrifty man.除了抽烟、喝酒,他是个生活节俭的人。
  • She was a thrifty woman and managed to put aside some money every month.她是个很会持家的妇女,每月都设法存些钱。
3 wilt
v.(使)植物凋谢或枯萎;(指人)疲倦,衰弱
  • Golden roses do not wilt and will never need to be watered.金色的玫瑰不枯萎绝也不需要浇水。
  • Several sleepless nights made him wilt.数个不眠之夜使他憔悴。
4 pregnancy
n.怀孕,怀孕期
  • Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
  • Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。
5 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
6 scenario
n.剧本,脚本;概要
  • But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
  • This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。
7 steadily
adv.稳定地;不变地;持续地
  • The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
  • Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。
8 premium
n.加付款;赠品;adj.高级的;售价高的
  • You have to pay a premium for express delivery.寄快递你得付额外费用。
  • Fresh water was at a premium after the reservoir was contaminated.在水库被污染之后,清水便因稀而贵了。
9 tilts
(意欲赢得某物或战胜某人的)企图,尝试( tilt的名词复数 )
  • As the kitten touches it, it tilts at the floor. 它随着击碰倾侧,头不动,眼不动,还呆呆地注视着地上。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
  • The two writers had a number of tilts in print. 这两位作家写过一些文章互相攻击。
10 retailers
零售商,零售店( retailer的名词复数 )
  • High street retailers reported a marked increase in sales before Christmas. 商业街的零售商报告说圣诞节前销售量显著提高。
  • Retailers have a statutory duty to provide goods suitable for their purpose. 零售商有为他们提供符合要求的货品的法定义务。
11 prone
adj.(to)易于…的,很可能…的;俯卧的
  • Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.有些人往往作出轻率的结论。
  • He is prone to lose his temper when people disagree with him.人家一不同意他的意见,他就发脾气。
学英语单词
acrosomal cap
Alleynians
annual value product
auxiliary power unit (apu)
Batama
belted galloway
benzoylene
Bergatreute
bring on
burner zone wall heat release rate
buzhaye
charles louis napoleon bonapartes
chilled drinking water
Clark, Adam
compensation and damages
continuation bet
cyclanes
dan nguyet
demand growth
dihydrosanguinarine
Distichodontinae
economical facing point lock
effects buses
electrically melted
encoring a
error performance index
estimating of molecular weight
etopside
fangled
fetch one's breath
flatness of field
fuel pellet stack
Geranium sinense
glouttonnous
glyhexylamid
grab hook
Grant Park
habitfroming drug
hard top
Hertzel's sign
high-heel
imposition of death penalty
incestually
interchange agreement
intermediate group selector
iron-ring support
irrigation basin
jaghire
Lellinge
ligamenta tarsi dorsalia
limit of inflammability
line steel
Litvinov
lumped reactor
Lyapunovo
measure of approximation
millenium
motor hunting
neoscona scylloides
nephrotresis
non - compete clause
O-Demethylbuchenavianine
outer chiasma
ovipositing
Pareto efficiency
payload efficiency
picralluminite (picroallumogene)
pilous
prepruning
radix echinopsis larifolii
rauvoxine
resilient trip
return route concealment
rhamniose
road-repair
secretion vitrinite
sheet metal drawing
silt particle
source bubble
space launching market
special talent
steam-blown fiber
sync section
Tanakaea
territorial sea strait
Tetradium daniellii
thebanine
three fourth running down clause
thyrsoidea
time study people
TM radar
took kindly to
trouble oneself
tuballoy
under-hold
van der waal's equation
vitreous texture
voltmeter multi-cellular electrostatic
weleryt (whlerite)
well-concorded
wrap-party
Zaysan