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Pig farms in China
Sows in the cloud
As swine-rearing modernises, Chinese internet firms go into pigsties
注释：
Sow n.
★母猪
Rear v.
★饲养
★抚养、培养
Pigsty n.
★猪圈
★肮脏的地方
  
The sleek offices of NetEase in Hangzhou, a traffic-clogged city in eastern China, see man unlikely place to find a farmer. Yet the video-gaming company also runs a pig-rearing division. Ni Jinde launched Weiyang, its swine affiliate, almost a decade ago, after a stint in its financial team. At a state-of-the-art farm in nearby Anji county, Mr. Ni oversees the rearing and slaughter of 20, 000 organic free-range hogs a year, with the aid of tracking sensors, big-data analysis and soothing music. A second farm, to open in December, will raise another 150, 000.
注释：
Sleek adj.
★（贬）时髦的、衣冠楚楚的
★光亮的、光滑的
NetEase n.
★网易
Clog v.
★（使）阻塞、堵塞
Swine n.
★猪
Affiliate n.
★分公司、附属机构
Stint n.
★从事某项工作（或活动）的时间
He did a stint abroad early in his career.
他早年在国外干过一段时间。
State-of-the-art adj.
★最先进的、应用最先进技术（或方法）的
Slaughter n.
★屠宰、屠杀
Free-range
★（动物）放养的、散养的
Hog n.
★猪
Soothe v.
★减轻、缓和、缓解（紧张、疼痛等）
★安慰、抚慰
  
NetEase has become part of a gigantic agricultural venture. China's 430m porkers account for over half of the world's herd, and its $1trn industry produces more pork than any other country. Yet pig-rearing remains remarkably inefficient. It has long been a family affair: nine in ten of an estimated 40m pig farmers are thought to raise fewer than 50 hogs a year. Only about one in five Chinese sows is in industrialised production, estimates Bill Christianson of Genus, a British firm that is the world's biggest supplier of breeding pigs.
注释：
Gigantic adj.
★巨大的、庞大的
Herd n.
★兽群、牧群
  
But small-scale farms lack measures to prevent the spread of disease; this has allowed a deadly swine fever to run riot since a first reported case in August. In 2013 over 16,000 carcasses of pigs dumped by farmers were dredged from a river that supplies tap water to Shanghai. Since then, new pollution standards that ban livestock production near water sources or towns, and which require proper treatment of manure, have led to closure for tens of thousands of smallholdings.
注释：
Fever n.
★发烧、发热，这里可理解为猪瘟
Run riot
★撒野、肆意妄为
★（想象、情感等）任意发挥、奔放
Manufacturers have let their imaginations run riot to create new computer games.
生产商极尽想象力，开发设计新的电脑游戏。
★（植物）疯长
Carcasse n.
★动物尸体、（尤指供食用的）畜体
Dump v.
★丢弃、扔掉
★抛弃、推卸
He's got no right to keep dumping his problems on me.
他没权利总是把问题推到我身上。
★（商业）倾销、抛售
Dredge v.
★打捞、捞取
★清淤、疏淤、挖掘
They are dredging the harbour so that larger ships can use it.
他们正在疏淤港湾，以便大船驶入。
Livestock n.
★畜生、家畜
Manure n.
★粪肥、肥料
  
The closures are likely to accelerate China's transition to modern production. Large-scale experiments in pig-rearing are under way in the form of multi-storey farms. A complex on Yaji mountain in southern China has 13 levels, with 1,300 pigs to a floor. But these structures are pricey, partly because of the measures they require to prevent disease from tearing through the building.
注释：
Be under way
★在进行中、已经开始
Multi-storey adj.
★多层的
Tear v.
★飞奔、狂跑，这里是比喻义，可理解为传播。
  
China's internet giants think that bringing technology to the pigsty is the answer. Mr. Ni says that farms like Weiyang are"setting the example". It prides itself on rearing its hogs for 300 days in clean and wholesome conditions before they are sent to slaughter, twice as long as the typical life of a Chinese pig. This makes for tastier pork sausages and other pig products it sells online. NetEase is not alone in marrying tech and animal husbandry. ID. com, an e-commerce firm that is an investor in Weiyang, raises and sells "jogging chickens" that each take 1m steps before the chop, making the meat more succulent than that of sedentary fowl. In June the cloud-computing arm of Alibaba, an internet company based in Hangzhou, unveiled an "agricultural brain" that helps farmers monitor pigs in real time through visual and "voice"recognition powered by artificial intelligence.
注释：
Sausage n.
★香肠、腊肠
Marry v.
★结合在一起
Husbandry n.
★农牧业
Jog v.
★慢跑
Succulent adj.
★汁多味美的
★（植物）肉质的、多汁的
Succulent plants
多肉植物
Sedentary adj.
★（工作等）需要久坐的，（人）惯于久坐的
★（人或动物）定居的、不迁徙的
Fowl n.
★家禽
Cloud computing
★云计算
Arm n.
★分部、职能部门
Artificial intelligence
★人工智能
  
Alibaba's programme, which is undergoing tests in Sichuan province, picks up the squeal of a crushed piglet or the bleat of a sick sow, and alerts the farmer. Cameras in the pens track daily activity and vital signs by way of numbers stamped on the animals' backs. It uses this trove of data to draw up exercise regimes. It reckons that its system can increase to 32 the number of piglets per sow per year,a measure of efficiency in the pig business. That would double the output of many Chinese farms.
注释：
Undergo v.
★经历、经受（变化或不快的事）
To undergo tests/trials/repairs.
★经受考验、接受检修
Squeal n.
★拖长的尖叫声
Crush v.
★挤压、压坏、压伤
Piglet n.
小猪
Bleat n.
★（羊）咩咩叫，这里指猪的那种叫声（自己意会）。
Alert v.
★向……报警、使警觉/警惕
Pen n.
★圈、畜栏
Vital adj.
★必不可少的、极其重要的
★（人）生机勃勃的、热情洋溢的
Stamp v.
★（把图案、字样等）盖在……上面
★跺脚、重踩
Sam stamped his foot in anger.
萨姆气得直跺脚。
Trove n.
★=treasure trove（储藏珍宝、知识等的）宝库、宝藏
Regime n.
★组织方法、管理体制
★政权、政体
  
Foreign suppliers also hope to put their snouts in the trough as pig farming industrialises. Hog Slat, an American maker of pig-barn floors, opened its third plant in China this year and plans seven more within four years. DSM, a Dutch supplier of feed, has launched an app through which Chinese farmers and suppliers can place orders, track inventories and monitor feed quantities, as well as check pork prices. The app will eventually offer live-streaming and facial-recognition tools, which could detect the features of a porker's face and identify its genetic make-up. In China big data is meeting pig data.
注释：
Snout n.
★（猪等动物的）口鼻部
Trough n.
★槽、饲料槽
Barn n.
★谷仓、畜棚、仓房
Feed n.
★饲料、肥料
Live-streaming
★网络直播、实时播放