food chain
食品链,食物链,生物链,食品连锁店
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- : Ecology. a series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one, etc.
- : the chain from a food source to the ultimate consumer.
- : a hierarchy ranked by status, importance, influence, etc.: people who are high up on the political and media food chain.
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Besides making Earth warm enough to be habitable, it gives plants the energy they need for photosynthesis, forming a crucial piece of the food chain.
Without them, their prey populations would soar, decreasing availability of plants and animals down the food chain.
Many fast food chains have introduced plant-based options in recent years, but most of these have been partnerships with Impossible Foods or Beyond Meat.
Over the past couple of years, basically every fast food chain has released a meatless burger.
They can end up in the food chain, showing up in animals big and small.
And there is definitely something to finding solace in food, familiarity, and memory.
Finding a smuggler in Ventimiglia is easier than finding good food.
Talking about death is never easy, but with food, comfort, and familiarity, a new kind of dinner party is making it easier.
You expect soldiers of all ranks to understand the need to respect the chain of command, regardless of personal feelings.
And if people find themselves dissatisfied with how often they turn to fast food, Bacon says to try things like batch cooking.
And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?
The general commanded a halt, and ordered the men to refresh and strengthen themselves by food and drink.
It was he who first said, If thine enemy hunger give him food, if he thirst give him drink.
These officers are bound to maintayne themselves and families with food and rayment by their owne and their servant's industrie.