Question

英译汉（人工翻译）：

1.Now that would be hard!
2.There are two main causes of the chocolate shortage—— chocolate’s growing popularity and less production of cocoa,the plant from which chocolate is made.
3.With more and more people in India and China loving chocolate,not much can be done about the first cause.
4.Therefore,the only thing we can do is to increase cocoa production.
5.To prevent more farmers from changing,researchers at the newly opened International Cocoa Control Centre,in the UK,are trying to create new ccx;oa plants that are stronger and faster growing.
6. First,each new plant is stored at the Control Centre for six months to make sure it is healthy.
7.Only after scientists are certain that they’re diseasefree,will the plants be sent to farmers in West Africa or wherever else they are needed.

Answer 1

1. 现在有点儿困难了。

2. 巧克力短缺有两个主要的原因--巧克力普及度的增长和可可生产的减少，可可是制作巧克力的植物。

3. 由于越来越多的印度人和中国人喜爱巧克力，对于第一个原因我们能做的事不多。

4. 因此我们能做的就只有增加可可的产量。

5. 为防止更多的农场主改变，英国新成立的国际可可控制中心的研究人员们正尝试能够更强壮、生长更快的可可植物。

6. 首先，每个新植物在控制中心存放六个月以保证其健康。

7. 只有当科学家们确认它们处于无病状态时，这些植物才能发给在非洲西部的农场主或其他需要它们的地方。