Irish potato

基本解释

And a strange penultimate chapter on the Irish potato famine in which the potato blight is the villain, responsible for many deaths and massive emigration (shades of McNeill?).
奇怪的是倒数第二章写道大规模的移民应对爱尔兰的马铃薯饥荒造成更多人饿死而负责。
Scientists at Cornell University recently borrowed a gene from a South American potato to make potatoes that resisted the late blight fungus, a devastating disease that caused the Irish potato famine.
最近，康奈尔学的科学家从南美洲马铃薯中提取了一种基因，改良成一种能抵御晚疫病菌的马铃薯。正是这种毁灭性疾病导致了爱尔兰的马铃薯饥荒。
And you walked right up to that girl you liked and you could not stop talking about the Irish potato famine?
你向那个你喜欢的女生走去，然后不住的说爱尔兰的土豆短缺危机？

Potato shortages caused at least one million deaths and a wave of Irish immigration to America.

Some immigrants were survivors of disasters such as the Irish potato famine.
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Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, recently spoke of his regrets about the British government's failures during the Irish potato famine in the 1840s.
ECONOMIST: Mea culpa, and all that
It is a paradox reminiscent of the Irish potato famine that in a population near starvation the demand for a staple goes up even as its price skyrockets.
FORBES: What devaluation hath wrought