英汉翻译求助Pre-historymenandwomenenjoyedamorevarieddietthanpeopledonow,sincetheyatespeciesofplantandseveralhundredthousandtypesoflivingcreature.Butonlyatinypercentageofthesewereeverdomesticated.Modernshops

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英汉翻译求助
Pre-history men and women enjoyed a more varied diet than people do now, since they ate species of plant and several hundred thousand types of living creature. But only a tiny percentage of these were ever domesticated. Modern shops have accelerated a trend towards specialization which began in the earliest days of agriculture. The food of the rich countries has become cheaper relative to wages. It is speedily distributed in supermarkets. But the choice annually becomes less and less great. Even individual foods themselves become more standardized. We live in the world of the carrot specially blunted in order to avoid making a hole in the bag, and tomato grown to meet a demand for a standard weight of eighteen tomatoes to a kilo. Someone asks: "Only the three major cereals and perhaps ten other widely cultivated species stand between famine and survival for the worlds human population and a handful of drug plants has served Western civilization for several thousand years. A rather obvious question arises, “Are we missing something?" After all, there are 800,000 species of plant on earth.

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史前的人的食谱比现代人的要丰富的多,因为他们食用多种植物和成百上千的种动物,而只有很少的一部分是被驯化过的.现代社会的商店把农业社会早期开始的专业化进程迅速推进.富裕国家的食品价格相对于收入变得更加便宜,食品在超市里被快速的销售出去.但每年可选择的食品品种却越来越少.甚至个人食品变得更加标准化.我们生活在这样的世界里,为了怕把袋子戳破而故意把胡萝卜尖削掉,西红柿的重量要达到18个一公斤的要求.有人问：“目前人类只依靠三种主要的谷类和其他大约十种广泛种植的品种来解决温饱,一小部分的草药为西方文明服务了上千年.这就出现了另一个显而易见的问题：“我们是不是失去了什么?”.毕竟,在这个地球上,总共80万种物种.