1·Its total acreage has been decreased to 17.51%, next to CGX 11, ranking the second.
其种植面积已减少到17.51%，仅次于桂糖11，居第二位。
2·The biggest agricultural success story of the past two decades has been Brazil, largely because it was able to increase its usable acreage by making its vast cerrado (savannah-like grassland) bloom.
过去二十年间，最大的农业成功在巴西，很大程度上是因为巴西通过改造塞拉多（大草原般的草地）增加了可耕面积。
3·Already intensively cultivated and mechanised, there are few opportunities for farmers to increase output by improving yields on existing acreage.
尽管农民已精耕细作并实现了机械化种植，但仅凭提高现有土地面积的产出已很难让棕榈油产量得到大幅提升。
4·Speculators, among them Muammar Qaddafi, are snatching up much of Africa's arable soil -- enough acreage to cover Norway in a single year -- driving up food prices and leaving locals homeless
许多投机者，包括穆阿迈尔.卡扎菲（ Muammar Qaddaf），以每年足以覆盖一个挪威面积的速度抢占非洲的耕地，哄抬物价的同时，使当地人无家可归。
5·One of the morepromising energy frontiers of the Outer Continental Shelf, the acreage isestimated to contain 15 billion barrels of oil and 76 trillion cubic feet ofnatural gas.
这是外大陆架上最有前途的未开发的能源宝地之一，估计这块面积蕴藏150桶原油和76兆立方英尺天然气。