Industrial countries need never go short of food because of crop failure, since they can always afford to buy enough on world markets.
工业国决不会因作物歉收而缺乏粮食，因为它们总有能力在国际市场上买到足够的粮食。
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For instance, a British short film once shown on April Fool's Day was a fairly detailed documentary about "spaghetti farmers" and how they harvest their crop from the spaghetti trees.
例如，一部曾经在愚人节放映的英国短片名叫“面条农夫”，描述的是农夫们是如何从面条树上收割庄稼的。
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SHORT-SELLERS have been feasting of late on a crop of Chinese companies whose shares have collapsed on foreign markets amid allegations of deceptive accounting.