To become much more self-sufficient, the UK would need to drastically reduce its consumption of animal foods, and probably also farm more intensively — meaning fewer green fields and more factory-style production.
要变得更加自给自足，英国需要大幅减少动物食品的消费，1 可能也需要更集约化地耕种——这意味着更少的绿色田野和更多的工厂化生产。
There is a good reason why the UK is dominated by animal husbandry: most of its terrain doesn’t have the right soil or climate to grow crops on a commercial basis.
英国之所以以畜牧业为主，是有充分理由的：其大部分地形缺乏适合商业种植作物的土壤和气候。
13 , the signaling in a plant is only 14 similar to the firing in a complex animal brain, which is more than "a mass of cells that communicate by electricity," Taiz said.
13 ，植物中的信号传导只与复杂动物大脑中的放电 14 相似，这不仅仅是“一群通过电信号进行交流的细胞”，泰兹说道。
The egg industry’s push is the first major test of whether animal products from regenerative farms can become the next premium offering.
蛋类行业的这一举措是首次重大测试，看再生农场生产的动物产品是否能成为下一个高端产品。
They chose this particular behavior for three reasons, according to study co-author Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher at the University of California, Riverside: students’ attitudes on the topic are variable and unstable, behavior is easily measurable, and ethics literature largely agrees that eating less meat is good because it reduces environmental harm and animal suffering.
根据该研究的合著者、加州大学河滨分校的哲学家埃里克·施维茨格尔布（Eric Schwitzgebel）的说法，他们选择这一特定行为有三个原因：学生在这个话题上的态度具有可变性和不稳定性，行为容易被测量，而且伦理学文献普遍认为减少吃肉是好的，因为它能减少环境危害和动物痛苦。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。