i have learnt how quickly the dry rot of poverty stultifies and festers, crumbling confidence and destroying dignity.
我学到了贫困的干腐让人愚笨溃烂、粉碎人的信心、摧毁人的尊严有多快。
if one apple goes mouldy, will that make the others rot too?
如果一个苹果开始烂了,是不是其他的也会烂呢?
the rot could easily feed on itself, leaving equipment and workers idle, and depressing tax revenues.
蠢话很容易自圆其说,留下閑置的设备和工人,以及每况日下的税收。
if there is no road, they reason, their bumper crop will just rot in the field.
因为他们推断如果不通公路,丰收的作物将只会烂在田里。
this prospect is supposed to make me want to work harder, complain less and polish my cv to parade gloss, so that i can be one of the lucky ones who gets to escape the rats and the rot and the rage.
这一愿景应该会驱使我,更加努力的工作,更少的发牢骚,不断润色我的简历然后用来招摇过市,这样我就能成为那些最终逃离耗子,腐烂,和愤怒的众多幸运儿中的一员。
even opening up retailing to foreigners can help: companies such as wal-mart are good at getting food onto supermarket shelves rather than leaving it to rot in the fields.
甚至是向外国人开放零售业都会起到帮助:像沃尔玛这样的公司善于将食物送入超市货架而不是让其烂在田野中。
at other times he just cuts of the heads of the flowers, leaves the stems rot in the vase.
其他的时候他只是把那些花的花朵剪下来,留下茎腐烂在花瓶里。
certainly this makes moisture and rot lesser problems!
当然这样就较少地造成潮湿和腐烂问题。
yellow or brown areas shaped like the letter v on leaves may be a sign of black rot infection.
叶子上呈v字型的黄色或棕色地方可能是卷心菜感染了黑腐病的征兆。
in india, officials have allowed once-plentiful stockpiles to rot in fields, leaving many people hungry and driving up local prices.
在印度,官员们任由曾经充裕的小麦储备烂在田里,造成很多人挨饿,并推高了当地小麦价格。
they bundle totora reeds—the stalks of the giant bulrush—into floating, shape-shifting masses that change as reeds rot and new ones are lashed on.
他们把高大的多多啦芦苇的茎秆绑成捆,制成庞大的漂浮物。旧的芦苇不断腐烂,新的芦苇又编进去,所以岛的形状一直在变化。
「we also built bog bridges, 」 macie says. 「you need to take the supportive logs underneath and remove their bark, because the bark can rot quickly.
“我们还在沼泽建起小桥,」马西埃说,“你需要将一些原木支在下面,去掉上面的树皮,因为它们腐烂的很快。
the stalks will rot and make good fertilizer.
桿儿腐烂后会成为很好的肥料。
west african countries have a history of drawing their neighbours into their civil wars and many now fear the ivorian rot will spread with the refugees streaming out of the country.
西非国家有把它们的邻国卷入内战的历史,还有很多国家现在惧怕象牙海岸的腐朽会通过流民涌出国界而蔓延开来。