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(guó)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?cè)诿绹?guó)中西部玉米種植帶的很多排水系統(tǒng)中都檢測(cè)到這種殺蟲(chóng)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(dá)科達(dá)州的東部地區(qū)、明尼蘇達(dá)州西南部地區(qū)以及其他處于玉米帶中的、將玉米運(yùn)到市場(chǎng)費(fèi)用高昂的地方。

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