单词:food crisis
food crisis的用法和样例:
例句
- One cause of the current food crisis is drought.导致当前粮食危机的一个原因就是干旱。
- We can begin by taking the hard steps to deal decisively with the crisis in food.我们可以从排除困难,采取措施果断地处理粮食危机做起。
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