“粮食”英语怎么说
名词解释:粮食是指烹饪食品中各种植物种子总称,也可概括称为“谷物”。粮食作物含营养物质丰富,主要为蛋白质、维生素、膳食纤维、脂肪等。你知道怎么用英语表达吗?
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.
全球每年约有三分之一的粮食被浪费,浪费量大约为13亿吨。与此同时,生产和处理粮食所需的能源、水和化学制品也被浪费。
全球几乎有30%的农田和相当于俄罗斯伏尔加河年流量的水资源被白白消耗。
粮食浪费产生的碳足迹,相当于每年排放33亿吨二氧化碳,这表明更有效地使用粮食,将能为减少温室气体排放以抑制气候变暖作出巨大贡献。
【讲解】
文中的food就是“粮食;食物”的意思,一般意义上的粮食主要作物有cereal(谷物类),如:小麦(wheat),水稻(rice);legume crops(豆类作物),如:红豆(red bean),黄豆(soya);以及root foodstuff(根茎类食物),如:土豆(potato),红薯(sweet potato)等。
food不仅指可吃的食物,也用于比喻,指“精神粮食”,如:Books are food for the mind.(书籍是精神食粮。);需要注意的是,a food指一种食物,而foods指多种食物,如:a breakfast food(一种早餐食品),fried foods(油炸食品)。