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A special vault storing the world's most precious seeds has now amassed over one million different plant varieties. It recently took delivery of a consignment of seeds from 70,000 different crops. Global Seed Vault is buried deep in an icy mountain in the Arctic Circle area of Svalbard, Norway. It was started ten years ago to safeguard the future of the world's food supply. Climate change is causing more and more droughts around the world, which are threatening different species of plants. The vault holds back-ups of seed samples stored in other seed banks around the world. Hannes Dempewolf, a senior scientist at the Crop Trust, said: "Hitting the million mark is really significant."
Workers at the vault were not sure they would reach the million mark so soon. The crisis in Syria meant there was a shortfall of 90,000 seeds at the vault. The latest delivery to the vault included cereal staples. There were also more unusual crops like the onion potato from Estonia and the Bambara groundnut, which is being developed as a drought tolerant crop in Africa. Marie Haga, executive director of the Crop Trust, spoke about the importance of the vault. She said: "Safeguarding such a huge range of seeds means scientists will have the best chance of developing nutritious and climate-resilient crops that can ensure future generations don't just survive, but thrive."
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重点解析
1.A special vault storing the world's most precious seeds has now amassed over one million different plant varieties.
amass 累积;聚集
Some people take advantage of the loopholes in the law to amass a great fortune.
有些人钻法律的空子积聚了大笔财富 。
2.It recently took delivery of a consignment of seeds from 70,000 different crops.
consignment 托运物
The first consignment of food was flown in yesterday.
第一批食品昨天空运到了 。
参考翻译
储存世界上最珍贵种子的特别种子库内的种子数量已累积超过一百万,其中涵盖了各种不同植物的种子
种子库的工作人员此前还不确定他们会否马上达到百万目标