Chinese vegetables face slack season

时间：2007-01-06 01:14:29

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Chinanews, Beijing, January, 5 – New Year's Day and the Spring Festival (Lunar New Year) are usually peak season for vegetables and fruits in China. But 2007 is different.

 

Our reporter finds in Guangdong that though the prices of vegetables are dropping everyday, still they are sold sluggishly1. There are piles of green peppers left to rot in the gutters2.

 

“The price of peppers was 3.4 yuan per kg in 2005,but it is only 0.4 yuan now, and still we have to dump these peppers into gutters,”said a farmer.

 

The spinach3 in Shandong Province is also facing the slack season, its average price being only 1/3 of the figure in 2005.

 

In fact, similar cases can be found nearly all over China, making it hard for the farmers to make ends meet.

 
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1 sluggishly d76f4d1262958898317036fd722b1d29     
adv.懒惰地；缓慢地
参考例句：
  • The river is silted up and the water flows sluggishly. 河道淤塞，水流迟滞。
  • Loaded with 870 gallons of gasoline and 40 gallons of oil, the ship moved sluggishly. 飞机载着八百七十加仑汽油和四十加仑机油，缓慢地前进了。 来自英汉非文学 - 百科语料821
2 gutters 498deb49a59c1db2896b69c1523f128c     
（路边）排水沟( gutter的名词复数 )； 阴沟； （屋顶的）天沟； 贫贱的境地
参考例句：
  • Gutters lead the water into the ditch. 排水沟把水排到这条水沟里。
  • They were born, they grew up in the gutters. 他们生了下来，以后就在街头长大。
3 spinach Dhuzr5     
n.菠菜
参考例句：
  • Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
  • You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。

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