(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
Cargill has made it "very clear" to employees not to come to work
沙利文说,嘉吉公司已经“非常清楚”地告知员工,
if they're sick or have had contact with Covid-19 patients, Sullivan says.
如果他们生病或接触过新冠肺炎患者,就不要来上班 。
The company isn't penalizing unexcused absences and is offering up to 80 hours of paid leave
公司并未对无故缺勤进行处罚,
to employees who miss work because of Covid-19 impacts.
而是为因新冠肺炎影响而缺勤的员工提供最多80小时的带薪休假 。
Humes says he can't confirm if Benjamin or anyone else was told not to wear a mask.
休姆斯说,他无法证实本杰明或其他人是否被告知不要戴口罩 。
"I don't know who would have told him that," he says.
“我不知道谁会告诉他这个,”他说 。
The facility followed safety directives from Cargill, which were based on guidance from the CDC, Humes says.
该设施遵循嘉吉公司的安全指令,这些指令基于疾病预防控制中心的指导 。
Americans eat more meat per capita than the people of any other developed country except Argentina—
美国人人均吃肉量比除阿根廷以外的任何其他发达国家的人都要多,
almost 50% more than Canadians and more than double what people consume in the European Union.
几乎比加拿大人多50%,比欧盟国家消耗的两倍还要多 。
One reason is that, because of industrial agriculture, meat and poultry cost at least 20% less in the U.S. than in most European countries.
其中一个原因是,由于工业化农业的发展,美国肉类和家禽的成本至少比大多数欧洲国家低20% 。
"Big companies are competing with each other for the cheapest meat down to the pennies," says Wadiak of Cooks Venture.
“大公司正在相互竞争,争夺最便宜的肉,价格低到几便士,”Cooks Venture公司的瓦迪亚克说 。
Plant closures have sent prices soaring. Wholesale prices for beef hit an all-time high on May 4, double the recent low in February.
工厂关闭导致价格飙升 。5月4日,牛肉批发价格创历史新高,是2月份近期低点的两倍 。
Pork prices are the highest they've been since 2014, when a piglet-killing virus struck U.S. herds.
猪肉价格创下了2014年以来的最高水平,当时一种使仔猪致死的病毒袭击了美国牲畜 。
Bob Brown, an independent market consultant in Edmond, Okla.,
俄克拉何马州爱德蒙的独立市场顾问鲍勃·布朗估计,
estimates U.S. meat supplies have fallen 28% over seven weeks, equivalent to more than 500 million pounds.
美国肉类供应在7周内下降了28%,相当于超过5亿英镑 。
Some hog and poultry farmers are euthanizing pigs and chickens
一些养猪和家禽的农民正在对猪和鸡实施安乐死,
rather than holding and feeding them for slaughterhouses that may not open soon.
而不是把它们关起来,为可能不会很快开业的屠宰场喂食 。
"Protein markets are unequivocally the most volatile and least predictable I have ever witnessed,"
“毫无疑问,蛋白质市场是我见过最不稳定、最不可预测的市场,”
says equity analyst Heather Jones of Heather Jones Research.
希瑟·琼斯研究公司的股票分析师希瑟·琼斯说道 。
重点讲解
1.up to 直到;多达
The sun's rays can penetrate water up to 10 feet.
太阳的光线可以穿透到10英尺深的水下
2.be based on 基于;以……为根据
We find her evidence to be based on a degree of oversensitivity.
我们认识到她提供的证据在一定程度上是出于过分敏感
3.equivalent to 相等的;等同于
One kilometre is equivalent to two li.
1公里为2华里