16-02-16 Food desert refers to an area where fresh food is either non-existent or too expensive. 食品荒漠是指没有新鲜食品或这种食品价格极贵的地区。 看了以上定义，你也许对此还是没啥概念。憋急！我们来看看对此问题颇感头大的美国农业部是怎么解释的： What is a foo...

15-12-08 Reducetarian refers to a person who purposefully reduces the amount of meat in their diet. 忌肉主义者是指故意减少饮食中肉的摄入量的人。 The term reducetarian was coined by Brian Kateman of Columbia University. 该词是由哥伦比亚大学的布莱恩凯特曼创造...

15-10-16 In the State of Chu a man cooked some monkey meat and invited his neighbour to eat it with him. He told his neighbour: This is dog meat. The neighbour ate and drank his fill and said the taste was excellent. After the meal, when the neighbour heard...

15-08-17 Approximately 31 percent of food produced in the U.S., or 133 billion pounds of food worth $162 billion, was wasted in 2011 according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that the...

15-08-07 In ancient times, a man surnamed Dong in the State of Wei was interested in nothing but keeping cats. He kept over 100 cats in his home, which caught and ate all the rats in the house. Later, as there were no more rats, the cats were so hungry that...

15-07-15 Media reports say General Administration of Customs officials seized more than 100,000 tons of zombie meat , long-expired frozen meat products including chicken wings and beef, worth more than 3 billion yuan. Some of the meat had been frozen for mor...

15-05-13 Meat in a seat refers to a customer or employee who is unappreciated or viewed only as a source of revenue; or an unskilled person who is just along for the ride. Meat in a seat（座位上的一团肉）指不被赏识的员工或者仅被商家当做收入来源的顾客；或指没...

14-11-29 Freezing meat once it is home from the supermarket could kill deadly bugs. 一回家就把从超市买的肉制品冷冻起来可以杀灭其中致命的病菌。 The process of freezing meat kills up to 90 percent of campylobacter cells. Campylobacter bugs can cause stomach up...

14-10-08 Two men were buying meat at a butcher's stall in the marketplace, and, while the butcher's back was turned for a moment, one of them snatched up a joint and hastily thrust it under the other's of them snatched up a joint and hastily thrust it under...

14-09-29 There was a daughter-in-law who liked by the old women in the village. One night, a piece of meat was missing from the daughter-in-law's home, and her mother-in-law suspected that she had stolen it. So he decided to drive her out to her mother's hom...