转基因木瓜走上日本商场货架

break down损坏, 发生故障
例句：Her telephone had broken down.
她的电话故障了。

2. “And, virtually, it saved the papaya industry in Hawaii," Gonsalves says. "So now, Rainbow papaya accounts for 80 percent of Hawaii’s papaya.”

account for占有，占...百分比
例句：APEC members account for more than half of the world's economic output.
亚太经合组织成员的经济总量在世界占一半以上。

3. A campaign called “Just Label It” seeks to change that.

seek to企图; 试图
例句：I sought to change her mind.
我试图改变她的心意。

4. “And while the debate is raging on, and while we’re collecting data on the impacts of these very, very new crops, people deserve and need and have the right to know whether to participate in that system or not,” says Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm, a major organic yogurt company and a backer of the campaign.

participate in参加
例句：The people are demanding a chance to participate more in government.
人民要求更多的参与政事的机会。

5. “People always opt for more information," says Giddings, "whether or not they have any idea what it means, or how they might use it.”

opt for选择
例句：They opt for more holiday instead of more pay
他们选择了延长假期而不是增加工资。

6. Giddings has worked on GMO policy for three decades.

work on致力于…
例句：He has been working on a new novel for over a year now.
近一年多来, 他一直在写一部新小说。

7. The Rainbow papaya went on sale in Japan a few weeks ago with a label that says it is a GMO.

go on继续下去
例句：If he goes on like this he'll lose his job.
如果他继续这样下去,他会丢掉差事的。

8. “Now, instead of lots of speculation, ‘Oh, my gosh, these people aren’t going to eat it because they don’t like this.’ They’re all speculating," he says.

instead of(用…)代替…, (是…)而不是…, (用…)而不用…
例句：We went to the Biology class instead of attending the English lesson.
我们去上生物课而不去上英语课。