corn belt

基本解釋

Piauí is one of the country’s driest areas but still gets a third more water than America’s corn belt.
皮奧伊州是巴西最干旱的地方，但這里比美國玉米生產(chǎn)帶的水源還多三分之一。
Scientists have detected the insecticide in a significant number of streams draining the great corn belt of the American mid-West.
科學(xué)家們在美國中西部玉米種植帶的很多排水系統(tǒng)中都檢測到這種殺蟲劑。
The same logic applied in the eastern counties of North and South Dakota, in south-west Minnesota and in other parts of the corn belt where getting corn to market is costly.
同樣的情形也存在于南北達科達州的東部地區(qū)、明尼蘇達州西南部地區(qū)以及其他處于玉米帶中的、將玉米運到市場費用高昂的地方。

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