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When harvests fail, farmers suffer. And if analysts are correct, that’s what’s about to happen to the olive oil market with prices predicted to rise by between 30 and 60 percent. It’s all because of a mild autumn in the olive-growing countries of the Mediterranean, which just failed to kill off the deadly olive fly. Our Italy correspondent James Renaults has been inspecting the damage.
Workers in central Italy use a machine to shake down olives from the groves. In a good year, one tree heremight yield 50 kilos of olives. This year, it yields just 20. In this olive grove, you’ll get a real sense of the devastation of this year’s harvest. The trees look reasonably normal. Their leaves are quite healthy. But flies have attached the olives. And just trying to find olives here is reasonably difficult. Butif I just pick one here, it’s discolored. She is the third generation of her family to work on this farm.
I’ve never seen anything as bad as this. Even my father who worked here before me doesn’t remember anything as bad as this. This is the worst season we’ve ever had. I’m very disturbed by it, but I have to have faith in my trees. They are healthy, and I hope that next year’s harvest will be OK.
It bottles the oil and exports it all over the world. But its most important , its pickiest, fussiest and most perfectionist market is at home.
No, no, no. It’s inconceivable. I’m from Sicily. I couldn’t even begin to imagine cooking without oliveoil. It’s in my DNA. There may be a few places in Italy in the north where people use less oil. But in the last 20 to 30 years, even those who once cooked with butter or lard have now switched to olive oil.
In the isles, next to the expensive bottles, I ask one couple what turns out to be a rather laughable question—could they live without olive oil? Their answer barely needs translation. No, no. For us Italians, there can be no substitute. So no one here will be switching to lard. Italians who are struggling with recession and high unemployment will have to find more money for one of their most basic products. For that, blame the weather and the fly.
词汇解析
violence
难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词
英汉解释
n.猛烈；暴力；暴行；强暴
参考例句
用作名词 (n.)
The young man was charged with robbery with violence.
这个年轻人被控暴力抢劫。
The act of violence made people boil with anger.
这种强暴的行为令人发指。
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political
难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词
英汉解释
adj.政治的；政治上的；政党的；人事的；争权夺利的
参考例句
用作形容词 (adj.)
The British political system has evolved over several centuries.
英国的政治制度是经过几个世纪逐步发展而成的。
Everything in our company is so political that you never know who you can trust.
我们公司的所有事情都是争权夺利的,以至于你都知道你能相信谁。
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passive
难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词
英汉解释
adj.被动的；消极的
n.被动性
参考例句
用作形容词 (adj.)
He played a passive role in the marriage.
他在婚姻中扮演了一个被动的角色。
用作名词 (n.)
Good is the passive that obeys reason.
善是服从理智的被动性。
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deceive
难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词
英汉解释
vt.欺骗
vi.行骗
参考例句
用作及物动词 (vt.)
It's not honorable to deceive them.
欺骗他们是不光彩的。
用作不及物动词 (vi.)
Appearances can deceive.
外表是有欺骗性的。
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complex
难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词
英汉解释
adj.复杂的；合成的；复合的
n.综合体；复合体；[医]综合症状；[心]情结
参考例句
用作形容词 (adj.)
They also provide composable functionality required to support complex, large-scale systems.
并提供可复合的功能以支持复杂的大规模系统。
用作名词 (n.)
An inferiority complex is very harmful to you and is the greatest obstacle .
自卑心是最伤害自己的，是最大的障碍。
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contract
难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词
英汉解释
n.合同；婚约；合约；契约
v.缩小；订合同；缩短；感染（疾病）；招致
参考例句
用作名词 (n.)
Families sought favourable alliances, either by marriage or contract.
各个家庭通过婚姻或者婚约来建立有力的亲缘关系。
用作动词 (v.)
It's an urgent business, we have no time for unnecessary consideration—please contract your inspection period!
这是个紧急时间,我们没时间做多余的考虑了——请缩短你的审查期！
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province
难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词
英汉解释
n.省
参考例句
用作名词 (n.)
British Columbia is a province of Canada.
不列颠哥伦比亚是加拿大的一个剩
Hangzhou is the capital city of Zhejiang Province.
杭州是浙江的省会城市。
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