seed-corn

基本解釋

None of the candidates wants to eat the seed-corn of California by hurting the universities.
然而，所有候選人們都不會損害大學(xué)的利益，籍此耗盡加州未來的發(fā)展資源。
Corn seed-coat is a major byproduct of the wet-milling cornstarch industry and rich in arabinoxylan.
玉米皮是玉米淀粉工業(yè)的主要副產(chǎn)品，含有大量的阿拉伯木聚糖。
A venture-capital fund of £325m has already been raised to back budding technology-based firms, helped on its way by a seed-corn public investment of £150m.
政府給予了1億5英鎊公眾投資作為谷種，一個基于科技的企業(yè)在他的萌芽階段風(fēng)險基金達(dá)到了3億2.5英鎊。

They recognized that such programs were the technological seed-corn for the future, the means by which American security would be safeguarded and our interests protected down the road.
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These include figuring out ways in which to maintain the Russian nuclear weapons program's scientific and physical infrastructure and how to give away seed-corn technology developed by the national labs at enormous expense taxpayer.
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