英文早点 | 1127_美国大量作物腐烂在仓库里，由于贸易战带来的储存成本飙升

自从美国总统特朗普挑起贸易战以来，美国各大农业州的农民深受其害叫苦不迭。今年美国大豆又再获丰收，然而由于特朗普政府执意要打贸易战，中国大幅减少从美国进口大豆，很多美国农民叫苦连天，只能眼睁睁看着大豆堆积成山，恐怕很快就要烂在谷仓里了。

We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.----La Rochefoucauld

Across the United States, grain farmers are plowing under crops, leaving them to rot or piling them on the ground, in hopes of better prices next year, according to interviews with more than two dozen farmers, academic researchers and farm lenders. Some farmers are pulling farm equipment out of barns to make room for the overflow of grains.

The trade war has only exacerbated the strain on storage, which has been a persistent problem in recent years due largely to a worldwide oversupply of grains.

文本选自 ：Reuters（路透社）

作者 ：Mark Weinraub, P.J. Huffstutter

原文标题 ：Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar

原文发布时间 ：21 Nov. 2018

grain

英 [greɪn]  美 [ɡren]

• n. 谷物，粮食;（沙，金，盐等的）颗粒;谷粒，籽粒;（木材，大理石等的）纹理

• vt. 把…作成细粒;把…漆[画]成木纹;染透;刮去（皮上的）毛