1.稻田;麦田;玉米田
1.a field in which corn is growing
2.a field in which cereal crops such as wheat, barley, or oats are growing
1.Around the city, new high-rise buildings are going up where only cornfields stood just a few years ago.
在城市的周边,几年前还是农田的地方,新的高层建筑正在拔地而起。
2.At the Dayton conference, it was discussed as a growing social problem, not in some far-off foreign land, but among the cornfields of Ohio.
在代顿举行的会议上,这被当做一个日益严重的社会问题进行讨论,而这并非发生在遥远的外国土地上,而是就在俄亥俄州的“玉米地”里。
3.As the train glides silently past snow-covered cornfields, I ask my seatmates, people of varied ages and professions, about zhang.
火车静静地经过白雪覆盖的玉米地,我向不同年龄,不同职业的邻座乘客问了些关于“涨”的问题。
4.When he came to New York 20 years ago, he was only a hick fresh out of the cornfields of Kansas .
二十年前他来纽约之前,只不过是堪萨斯州种玉米的乡巴佬。
5.The long drought has left the cornfields parched and brown.
长时间的干旱使玉米变得灼热枯黄。
6.Cornfields are not very mobile: they cannot be extracted from the south of Brazil and replanted in the Arabian desert.
玉米田不能移动:我们无法从将它们从巴西南部挖出,再置于阿拉伯沙漠之中。
7.He starts in the cornfields of the mid-western United States because most food Americans eat is linked to this plant.
他从美国中西部的玉米田开始,因为美国人绝大部分食物和玉米相关联。
8.Thus, water demands for the cornfields has soared, putting pressure on aquifers, and competing with drinking water supplies.
这样,玉米田的水需求量在急剧地上升,给蓄水层带来了压力,并与饮用水一起在争夺着水资源。
9.A farmer pointed to the flattened cornfields. A harvest had been due in late October.
一名农民指着遭夷平了的农田,说本来10月就到了收成期。
10.I've used hundreds of other "cornfields" over the years: cars, forests, hotels, bathrooms.
长期以来,我用了很多“玉米地”:汽车、森林、宾馆、浴室。