Because agricultural chemicals are usually sprayed over large areas, it's hard to avoid polluting nearby water.

由于农用化学品通常大面积喷洒，很难避免污染附近的水。

Plants and birds and small mammals and the soil itself was slowly dying from the agricultural chemicals sprayed on to our food.

植物、鸟类和小型哺乳动物，就连土地本身，都正因为喷洒食物的农药而濒临死亡。

For many years, the Dnieper carried water containing industrial and agricultural chemicals which settled in the soil at the bottom of the reservoir.

多年来，第聂伯河里的水含有工业和农业化学物质，这些化学物质沉淀在水库底部的土壤中。

" You used to walk in at 12 o'clock on a Tuesday and stand in line to get something, " said Casey Allen, 46, who works for a division of the agricultural chemical company BASF in Raleigh, N.C.

“以前你在周二中午12点走进食堂，然后要排队才能取餐，”46岁的凯西·艾伦说，她在北卡罗来纳州罗利市的农业化学品公司BASF的一个部门工作。

Biochemist Lars Thelander at the announcement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: " Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling has made it possible to synthesize carbon based molecules, for example, new medicines, agricultural chemicals and organic compounds used in the electronics industry" .

生化学家拉施‧铁兰德在瑞士皇家科学院的发言中说道：" 钯催化的交叉偶联法让我们有可能合成由碳原子组成的分子——比如说新的药物、农药以及电子行业的有机化合物。"