seedcorn

seedcorn

1. Don't waste time.You will eat up the seedcorn one day!

不要再浪费时间了，总有一天你会将老本吃完的。

2. Mr Callaghan warned that if we sold our assets in the North Sea, we would be eating the seedcorn.

卡拉汉先生警告说，如果我们卖北海的资源，那我们就是在卖老本。

3. This has been driven by the belief that seedcorn investment by government does not work.

造成这种局面，是因为人们认为政府的种子投资没有成效。