“糧食”英語怎么說
名詞解釋:糧食是指烹飪食品中各種植物種子總稱,也可概括稱為“谷物”。糧食作物含營養(yǎng)物質(zhì)豐富,主要為蛋白質(zhì)、維生素、膳食纖維、脂肪等。你知道怎么用英語表達(dá)嗎?
Every year about a third of all food for human consumption, around 1.3 billion tons, is wasted, along with all the energy, water and chemicals needed to produce it and dispose of it.
Almost 30 percent of the world's farmland, and a volume of water equivalent to the annual discharge of the River Volga, are in effect being used in vain.
The carbon footprint of wasted food was equivalent to 3.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, suggesting that more efficient food use could contribute substantially to global efforts to cut greenhouse gases to limit global warming.
全球每年約有三分之一的糧食被浪費,浪費量大約為13億噸。與此同時,生產(chǎn)和處理糧食所需的能源、水和化學(xué)制品也被浪費。
全球幾乎有30%的農(nóng)田和相當(dāng)于俄羅斯伏爾加河年流量的水資源被白白消耗。
糧食浪費產(chǎn)生的碳足跡,相當(dāng)于每年排放33億噸二氧化碳,這表明更有效地使用糧食,將能為減少溫室氣體排放以抑制氣候變暖作出巨大貢獻。
【講解】
文中的food就是“糧食;食物”的意思,一般意義上的糧食主要作物有cereal(谷物類),如:小麥(wheat),水稻(rice);legume crops(豆類作物),如:紅豆(red bean),黃豆(soya);以及root foodstuff(根莖類食物),如:土豆(potato),紅薯(sweet potato)等。
food不僅指可吃的食物,也用于比喻,指“精神糧食”,如:Books are food for the mind.(書籍是精神食糧。);需要注意的是,a food指一種食物,而foods指多種食物,如:a breakfast food(一種早餐食品),fried foods(油炸食品)。