| A new study shows that people around the world are changing their diets because of soaring food prices, CNN reports. |
据美国有线电视新闻网报道，一项新的研究表明，持续上涨的食品价格正在改变着世界各国人民的饮食习惯。 |
| The majority of people in most countries surveyed by international aid agency Oxfam said they are no longer eating the same kind of food as they did two years ago, with 39 percent globally blaming rising food costs and another 33 percent citing health reasons. |
国际慈善机构乐施会进行的调查显示，被调查的国家中大多数人都说他们和两年前吃的不一样了，39%的人将其归咎于食品价格上涨，另有33%的人说是健康原因。 |
| Seventy-six percent of respondents in Kenya told Oxfam that they've changed their diets, with 79 percent blaming food prices. In Mexico, 65 percent of respondents changed diets, with more than half blaming prices as well. In the U.S., 55 percent of respondents said they no longer eat the same kinds of food they did two years ago, and 31 percent attribute the change to food prices. |
在肯尼亚，76%的受访者称已改变了饮食习惯，他们中79%的人认为食品涨价是罪魁祸首；在墨西哥，65%的受访者表示饮食习惯跟以前不同，其中超过半数的人认为是物价上涨导致的；在美国，55%的受访者说和两年相比饮食有变化，其中31%的人认为食品价格高涨是主因。 |
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"Our diets are changing fast and for too many people it is a change for the worst," said Jeremy Hobbs, executive director of Oxfam. "Huge numbers of people, especially in the world's poorest countries, are cutting back on the quantity or quality of the food they eat because of rising food prices."
(China.org.cn June 17, 2011) |
乐施会执行主任霍布斯说：“我们的饮食习惯变化很快。对很多人而言，这是最糟糕的变化。由于食品价格飞涨，大量人群，尤其是世界最贫困国家的人群，正削减他们的口粮、降低饮食质量。” |
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