2. India-born N. Damodar Reddy´s tiny California company reopened an AT&T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing from the state of Missouri. 印度出生的N.达莫达.雷迪经营的小小的加州公司在堪萨斯城重新启用了美国电话电报公司的一家芯片工厂,并从密苏里州获取了财政上的支持。
3. Whether it be plant or animal, dead or alive, 不管这种东西是植物还是动物,死的还是活的,
4. In the first instance, we would be looking for plant life, rather than ´little green men´. 首先我们要寻找植物,而不是那种"小绿人"。
5. In his recent book Earth Politics, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker wrote that "perhaps 90 percent of the destruction of animal and plant species, soil erosion, forest destruction and creation of deserts is taking place in developing countries." 在其新作《地球政治学》一书中,厄恩斯特·乌尔里克·冯·魏茨泽克写道:"动植物物种灭绝,土壤受侵蚀,森林被毁,沙漠产生,在这些破坏中,也许有90%正发生在发展中国家。"
6. Farmers add fertilizer to the soil to make plants grow better, or spray poison to kill plant pests. 农民为了使作物长得更好而给土壤施化肥或者为了杀死害虫而喷撒农药.