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When harvests fail, farmers suffer. And if analysts are correct, that’s what’s about to happen to the olive oil market with prices predicted to rise by between 30 and 60 percent. It’s all because of a mild autumn in the olive-growing countries of the Mediterranean, which just failed to kill off the deadly olive fly. Our Italy correspondent James Renaults has been inspecting the damage.
Workers in central Italy use a machine to shake down olives from the groves. In a good year, one tree heremight yield 50 kilos of olives. This year, it yields just 20. In this olive grove, you’ll get a real sense of the devastation of this year’s harvest. The trees look reasonably normal. Their leaves are quite healthy. But flies have attached the olives. And just trying to find olives here is reasonably difficult. Butif I just pick one here, it’s discolored. She is the third generation of her family to work on this farm.
I’ve never seen anything as bad as this. Even my father who worked here before me doesn’t remember anything as bad as this. This is the worst season we’ve ever had. I’m very disturbed by it, but I have to have faith in my trees. They are healthy, and I hope that next year’s harvest will be OK.
It bottles the oil and exports it all over the world. But its most important , its pickiest, fussiest and most perfectionist market is at home.
No, no, no. It’s inconceivable. I’m from Sicily. I couldn’t even begin to imagine cooking without oliveoil. It’s in my DNA. There may be a few places in Italy in the north where people use less oil. But in the last 20 to 30 years, even those who once cooked with butter or lard have now switched to olive oil.
In the isles, next to the expensive bottles, I ask one couple what turns out to be a rather laughable question—could they live without olive oil? Their answer barely needs translation. No, no. For us Italians, there can be no substitute. So no one here will be switching to lard. Italians who are struggling with recession and high unemployment will have to find more money for one of their most basic products. For that, blame the weather and the fly.
詞匯解析
violence
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.猛烈；暴力；暴行；強暴
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
The young man was charged with robbery with violence.
這個年輕人被控暴力搶劫。
The act of violence made people boil with anger.
這種強暴的行為令人發(fā)指。
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political
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
adj.政治的；政治上的；政黨的；人事的；爭權(quán)奪利的
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
The British political system has evolved over several centuries.
英國的政治制度是經(jīng)過幾個世紀逐步發(fā)展而成的。
Everything in our company is so political that you never know who you can trust.
我們公司的所有事情都是爭權(quán)奪利的,以至于你都知道你能相信誰。
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passive
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
adj.被動的；消極的
n.被動性
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
He played a passive role in the marriage.
他在婚姻中扮演了一個被動的角色。
用作名詞 (n.)
Good is the passive that obeys reason.
善是服從理智的被動性。
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deceive
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
vt.欺騙
vi.行騙
參考例句
用作及物動詞 (vt.)
It's not honorable to deceive them.
欺騙他們是不光彩的。
用作不及物動詞 (vi.)
Appearances can deceive.
外表是有欺騙性的。
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complex
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
adj.復(fù)雜的；合成的；復(fù)合的
n.綜合體；復(fù)合體；[醫(yī)]綜合癥狀；[心]情結(jié)
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
They also provide composable functionality required to support complex, large-scale systems.
并提供可復(fù)合的功能以支持復(fù)雜的大規(guī)模系統(tǒng)。
用作名詞 (n.)
An inferiority complex is very harmful to you and is the greatest obstacle .
自卑心是最傷害自己的，是最大的障礙。
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contract
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.合同；婚約；合約；契約
v.縮小；訂合同；縮短；感染（疾病）；招致
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
Families sought favourable alliances, either by marriage or contract.
各個家庭通過婚姻或者婚約來建立有力的親緣關(guān)系。
用作動詞 (v.)
It's an urgent business, we have no time for unnecessary consideration—please contract your inspection period!
這是個緊急時間,我們沒時間做多余的考慮了——請縮短你的審查期！
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province
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.省
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
British Columbia is a province of Canada.
不列顛哥倫比亞是加拿大的一個剩
Hangzhou is the capital city of Zhejiang Province.
杭州是浙江的省會城市。
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