VOA慢速英语:Study Links Climate Change to Changes in Crop Yields

短语讲解：

1. In the words of the researchers: "For soybeans and rice, winners and losers largely balanced out."

balance out抵消, 相抵, 平衡
例句：My accounts balance out for the first time this year.
我的账今年第一次收支平衡。

2. The study used computer models linking crop yields to weather.

link to与…连接; 联系
例句：Fingerprints linked the suspect to the crime.
指纹使嫌疑犯与犯罪联系起来。

3. The researchers compared the results to what the yields might have been without climate changes.

compare to与…相比
例句：Your necklace is surely not to be compare to hers in value . 
论价值,你的项链当然比不上她的。 

4. He says the report can serve as a planning tool for policy makers.

serve as充当, 担任
例句：This room can serve as a study.
这房子可以用作书房。

5. If you are worried about rising food prices, it might be good to funnel some research into breeding for heat tolerance and maybe even drought tolerance.

be worried about为…忧虑, 为…而担心
例句：If one takes the subway, he will not have to be worried about where to park his car.
要是乘地铁，就不必为停车地点发愁了。
be good to对…好；对…有益
例句：Swimming is good to health.
游泳对健康有益。

6. The pastoralists in the cattle corridor have to travel farther in search of pasture and water.

in search of寻找
例句：The scientists are in search of a new element
科学家们正在寻找一种新元素。

7. And that search, he says, can bring them into contact and conflict with farmers who have problems of their own.

bring into把…拿入, 带入(某处)
例句：Who brought that unpleasant woman into my home?
是谁把那个讨厌的女人带到我家里来的?