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VOA慢速英语:Crop Diseases and Pests Move to Higher Latitudes

2013-10-01来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. The records came from CABI - the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International.

come from 来自
例句:Where does the study come from?
这项研究来自什么地方?

2. "As new species of pests and diseases evolve and potentially the environment for them becomes more amenable at higher latitudes, the pressure on the breadbaskets of the world is going to increase."

be going to 要,会,将要
例句:They tend to be going to school.
他们都将去上学。

3. "It means that species in other parts of the world that might do well in warmer temperatures can now do well in the breadbasket of America."

do well in 成绩好,…做得好
例句:Make great effort to be enterprising and do well in auditing work.
努力开拓进取做好审计工作。

4. Another Entomologist Christian Krupke of Purdue University says the effects of these changes will depend very much on the crop, the insect and the disease.

depend on 依赖;相信
例句:You can depend on this newspaper.
你可以依赖这家报纸。

5.  But he says the research is a warning sign that people should care about climate change and do something about it.

care about 关心
例句:You think I care about the money?
你觉得我很关心那笔钱?