In mature, fully developed countries such as the UK, more-efficient farming practices and better transport, storage and processing facilities ensure that a larger proportion of the food produced reaches markets and consumers.
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In processing foods after the agricultural stage, there are large additional uses of water that need to be tackled in a world of growing demand
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Energy to power machinery, both on the farm and in the storage and processing facilities, adds to the energy total, which currently represents about 3.1% of annual global energy consumption.
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过程；进程
A process is a series of actions which are carried out in order to achieve a particular result.
例句
There was total agreement to start the peace process as soon as possible...
全体一致同意尽快开始和平进程。
They decided to spread the building process over three years...
他们决定用3年时间建成。
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（生物或化学的）变化过程
A process is a series of things which happen naturally and result in a biological or chemical change.
例句
It occurs in elderly men, apparently as part of the ageing process...
这种情况出现在老年人当中，显然是衰老过程的一部分。
The regularity with which this occurs suggests that the process is genetically determined.
这种现象出现的规律性表明这个过程是由基因决定的。
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VERB
加工；处理
When raw materials or foods are processed, they are prepared in factories before they are used or sold.
例句
...fish which are processed by freezing, canning or smoking...
经过冷冻、罐装或熏制处理的鱼
The material will be processed into plastic pellets.
这些材料将会被加工成塑料小球。
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VERB
处理（信息）
When people process information, they put it through a system or into a computer in order to deal with it.
例句
...facilities to process the data, and the right to publish the results...
处理数据的设备和公开其结果的权利
The information gathered by the telescopes will be processed by computers.
通过望远镜获得的信息将由计算机进行处理。
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VERB
审核；审议；检查；使接受处理
When people are processed by officials, their case is dealt with in stages and they pass from one stage of the process to the next.
例句
Patients took more than two hours to be processed through the department.
病人在这个科看病需要两个多小时的时间。
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PHRASE
在…的过程中；正在做
If you are in the process of doing something, you have started to do it and are still doing it.
例句
The administration is in the process of drawing up a peace plan...
政府正在起草和平计划。
Her novel is in the process of being turned into a television series.
她的小说正被拍成电视连续剧。
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PHRASE
在此过程中；与此同时
If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
例句
He finished ahead of the Spaniard, and in the process picked up his first time trial win as a pro...
他领先那个西班牙人到达终点，同时也首次作为职业选手获得计时赛的胜利。
You have to let us struggle for ourselves, even if we must die in the process.
你得让我们为自己拼搏，哪怕我们会在这个过程中死去。