India banned wheat?exports?on Saturday days after saying it was targeting?record?shipments this year, as a?scorching?heat wave?curtailed?output and domestic prices hit a record high.

Global buyers were?banking on?supplies from the world's second-biggest wheat producer after exports from the Black Sea region?plunged?following the war in Ukraine.

India's ban could?drive global prices to new peaks?given?already tight supply, hitting poor consumers in Asia and Africa particularly hard.

1. export /?eksp??rt/ n. 出口商品(通常用復數(shù)形式)

the country’s major exports 該國的主要出口產品

2. record /?rek?r?d/ n. (最高或最低的)紀錄?

· record shipments 空前的出口量，刷新紀錄的出口量?

· hit a record high/low 達到歷史最高/最低

3. scorching /?sk??rt???/ adj. 酷熱的，高溫的(extremely hot)

· a scorching summer day 炎炎夏日

4. curtail /k?r?te?l/ v. 削減，限制

· 近義表達：reduce, cut?

· curtail output 減產

· Industrial production has been curtailed further.?

工業(yè)生產進一步縮減。

5. bank on sb./sth. 依靠或指望某人/某事

· 近義表達：count on sb./sth.

· I’m banking on your help.?

我還指望你幫忙呢。

6. plunge /pl?nd?/ v. 暴跌，驟降(decrease suddenly and quickly)?

· The stock market plunged at the news.?

消息一傳出，股市隨之暴跌。

7. drive sth. to new peaks 把……推向新的高度?

8. given sth. 考慮到，鑒于……

· Given the circumstances, you’ve done really well.

鑒于這種情況，你已經做得很好了。