corn belt

基本解释

Piauí is one of the country’s driest areas but still gets a third more water than America’s corn belt.
皮奧伊州是巴西最乾旱的地方，但這裡比美國玉米生産帶的水源還多三分之一。
Scientists have detected the insecticide in a significant number of streams draining the great corn belt of the American mid-West.
科學家們在美國中西部玉米種植帶的很多排水系統中都檢測到這種殺蟲劑。
The same logic applied in the eastern counties of North and South Dakota, in south-west Minnesota and in other parts of the corn belt where getting corn to market is costly.
同樣的情形也存在於南北達科達州的東部地區、明尼囌達州西南部地區以及其他処於玉米帶中的、將玉米運到市場費用高昂的地方。

But then he flip-flopped in order to obtain electoral support from the Corn Belt.
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