| 单词 | food desert |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfood desert food desert n. British a place in which it is difficult to buy food, esp. a populated area containing few establishments selling cheap, nutritious, fresh food. ΚΠ 1988 Herald (Austral.) (Nexis) 9 Mar. (Taste section) 8 New Caledonia, surely more of a food desert than anything outside five kilometres from the centre of Melbourne. 1997 Financial Times 13 Mar. 14/5 Some localities have also become ‘food deserts’, where independent shops and street markets have closed and poorer citizens without cars have difficulty reaching the ‘cathedrals of choice’ on the edges of towns, he says. 2002 Economist (Electronic ed.) 19 Jan. Many of these areas in Birmingham are now identified as ‘food deserts’: food retailers have moved out, either to up-market shops in the city centre or to out-of-town supermarkets. < as lemmas |
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