As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.
正如往常一样，过去是未来的钥匙：我们现在已经识别出足够多的长期模式，这些模式塑造了地球以及我们这个物种的历史，因此可以基于证据对未来我们的后代所处的情境做出预测。
With the global population predicted to hit close to 10 billion by 2050, and forecasts that agricultural production in some regions will need to nearly double to keep pace, food security is increasingly making headlines.
随着全球人口预计到 2050年将达到近 100亿，以及一些地区农业产量需要几乎翻倍以保持同步的预测，粮食安全问题正日益受到关注。
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。