广播电视英语短句 第 188 课：粮食危机-1

Suppose you eat rice every day. 假设你每天都吃米饭。

But one day you go to the store and discover that the price is more than you can pay. 但某一天当你走进商店，发现其价格高的让你难以承受。

That happened to millions of people two years ago at the height of the world food crisis. 两年前世界粮食危机期间，数百万人遭遇了这种情况。

Between April of two thousand seven and March of two thousand eight the price of rice doubled in many places. 2007 年 4 月至 2008 年 3 月份期间，许多地方的米价翻了一倍。

Economists blamed the crisis on different causes, including high energy costs, bad weather and the use of food-crop lands for biofuel production. 经济学家将这次危机归咎于多种原因，包括高位的能源价格、糟糕的天气，以及农作物用地转化为生物燃料用地。