VOA慢速英语:Project in DRC Aims to Increase Fertilizer Use

1. The fertilizer costs around a dollar and thirty cents a kilo. But workers from the IFDC say if it triples a yield of potatoes, for example, it means twice the profit.

for example 例如
例句：Many great people rose from poor backgrounds -- Lincoln for example.
很多伟人出身贫寒,林肯就是一例。

2. The IFDC has found that when the men work with the women, the harvests are nine tons a hectare compared with six tons when the women work alone.

compare with 与...相比
例句：I'm afraid my English compares poorly with hers.
恐怕我的英语同她的英语相比要差得多。

3. There has been a period of about twenty years where donor support was dominated by policies that looked for other ways of developing agriculture than the intensive way elsewhere.

look for 寻找
例句：He is calling to look for her continuously. 
他一直在打电话找她。 

4. Edwige Mungwana Kavor is a local agronomist who works for Mercy Corps, an NGO.

work for 为……工作
例句：Comrade Yang will be in charge of that work for the time being. 
杨同志将暂时负责那项工作。 

5. But she says land can become dependent on chemical fertilizers and no longer produce without them.

no longer 不再；已不
例句：I am no longer privileged to tease you. 
我已经没有权力跟你逗笑了。

6. Henk Breman agrees farmers should mix it with organic fertilizer.

mix with 和...混合
例句：He doesn't mix with the rabble here. 
他不与这里的下等人交往。