一日译练丨万亩沙漠变良田，说的不是以色列

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其实一说到沙漠农业，大家可能想到的都是以色列的滴灌啥的。

去年小编们一起去联合国UNCCD COP13大会上做同传交传，也接触到了不少跟沙漠农业相关的东西~也是在那次大会上，我们了解到，原来中国也是一个沙漠农业大国！（民族自豪感油然而生？）

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沙漠变良田，听起来蛮魔幻的，但确实是我们身边正在上演的事情~

就来听听新闻如何对此歌功颂德吧（雾）

事不宜迟

Let's get started!

生词提醒：

sorghum 高粱

cell wall 细胞壁

hectare 公顷（和亩不是一个概念哦！！！！！！！！！）

准备好了就开始练习吧~

（最后两个词貌似直接被微信压缩掉了，是fertile ground哦！）

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Crops like corn, tomatoes, sorghum and sunflowers transforming more than 200 hectares of sand dunes into an oasis all within six months. It's all thanks to new technology developed by researchers at Chongqing Jiaotong University. They developed a paste made of a substance found naturally in plant cell walls. When it's added to sand, it's able to retain water, nutrients and air.

The costs of artificial materials and machines for transforming sand into soil is lower compared with controlled environmental agriculture and reclamation.

The research team has big future plans. This fall it hopes to transform an additional 200 hectares of desert and possibly more than 13,000 in the next few years. The method could be promising for China. In three years, the country hopes to reforest 50% of degraded desert land that can be treated. By 2030, the United Nations is aiming to reach zero growth of desert farmland around the world. So China's breakthrough experiment in converting sand to soil is promising, for making land seemingly hostile to life fertile ground

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