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The most popular fruit in the world - bananas - may be about to be wiped out by an invisible killer bug.
一種無形的致死性病菌或許馬上就要把香蕉——這種世界上最受歡迎的水果——“趕盡殺絕”了。

Panama Disease - which has already destroyed the most popular variety of banana - is back and its spreading like wildfire across global crops.
The problem is, bananas are seedless and are essentially all cloned from exactly the same plant - making them extremely vulnerable to disease.
A new study has warned the much-loved yellow fruit will be wiped out if we don't take action NOW.
The Gros Michel banana was once the most popular variety in the world – until it was completely killed off by Panama Disease in the 1950s.
The Cavendish banana - from the UK - stepped in to replace the Gros Michel and now makes up 95% of all banana exports in the world.
But Panama Disease - which is transmitted through soil and water and attacks the banana plant's roots - can lay dormant, waiting to strike, for up to 30 years.
And now it's back with a new global epidemic.
　　
◘ killer --n.殺人者，殺人犯，殺手，屠殺者
參考例句：
Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.
➙心臟病已成為英國的頭號致命疾病。
The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.
➙大量證據證明是他殺死她的。

◘ bug --n.蟲子；故障；竊聽器；vt.糾纏；裝竊聽器
參考例句：
There is a bug in the system.
➙系統出了故障。
The bird caught a bug on the fly.
➙那鳥在飛行中捉住了一隻昆蟲。

◘ essentially --adv.本質上，實質上，基本上
參考例句：
Really great men are essentially modest.
➙真正的偉人大都很謙虛。
She is an essentially selfish person.
➙她本質上是個自私自利的人。

◘ dormant --adj.暫停活動的；休眠的；潛伏的
參考例句：
Many animals are in a dormant state during winter.
➙在冬天許多動物都處於睡眠狀態。
This dormant volcano suddenly fired up.
➙這座休眠火山突然爆發了。

◘ epidemic --n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流傳極廣的
參考例句：
That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.
➙那種傳染病早已絕跡。
The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.
➙當局試圖把流行病限制在局部範圍。
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