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如果在中国出售的美国杏仁价格升高，中国消费者可能会抛弃加州，转而购买澳大利亚和非洲的杏仁。

Making US almonds more expensive in China could turn consumers away from the Golden State, and look to Australia and Africa instead.

6月份，我对中国的出口比5月份下降了近一半，过去两个月我的身价跌了10%。

In June, my export to China dropped by almost a half from May, and my prices have dropped by 10 percent over the past two months.

这还不是最糟糕的呢！比如，我的小伙伴—美国中西部的大豆，5月中旬以来，由于担心受贸易战的影响，价格下跌了近20%。

Yes, things can always get worse, like for my fellow soybeans in the Midwest. Prices for soybeans took a hit of almost 20 percent since mid-May due to trade war concerns.

But Trump has announced that he will provide 12 billion (US dollars) in federal aid to these farmers of crops such as soybean, sorghum, wheat and corn, grown mostly in traditionally Republican states, even though these Midwestern farmers are not happy with the relief, wanting trade instead. At least they have aid, unlike me.

不过，特朗普宣布，他将向种植大豆、高粱、小麦和玉米等作物的农民提供120亿美元的联邦紧急援助，这些作物的主要产区分布在传统上支持共和党的州，尽管中西部农民对此并不满意，因为他们想要的是贸易，而不是援助。可是，至少他们还有援助，不像我，什么都没有。

A 12-billion-US-dollar federal aid will be handed to farmers of crops such as soybean, sorghum, wheat and corn.

California’s 7,000 almond growers have actually been left out in the cold.

加州的7000名杏仁种植者被冷落了。

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