The service was dreadful. The lobster was inedible.

服务差劲。龙虾也难吃。

The food was horrific — dirty water served alongside rotting meat, gruel, and nearly inedible bread.

食物太可怕了——脏水配着腐烂的肉、稀粥和几乎不能吃的面包。

Medlars are inedible until they've been softened on the tree by a frost.

欧楂果要在树上经过霜冻软化后才能食用。

Waiter, I ordered a cream of mushroom soup with asparagus. This soup is obviously too runny, and it's over-seasoned. It's completely inedible!

服务员，我点的是芦笋奶汤。你给我上的分明都是水，是过季的。完全不能入口。

My favorite inedible function, though, is as an investment vehicle.

但是，我最喜欢的非食用功能，是用作一个投资工具。

The needle-shaped leaves of the conifers are virtually inedible, so this forest supports very little animal life.

针叶树的针状树叶根不能食用，所以生活在片森林里的动物非常稀少。

And just when we're growing crops, for every 100 pounds of food we make for humans from crops, 37 pounds of human inedible by-products are grown with those crops.

就在我们种植庄稼的时候，每生产 100 磅人类食物，就有 37 磅人类无法食用的副产品与庄稼一起产生。

These tough leaves contain inedible toxins that most animals can't digest.

坚硬的树叶含有无法食用的毒素，大多数动物都无法消化。

However, people with Pica will have the compulsion to eat particular objects that are inedible.

然而，患有异食癖的人会有吃特定不可食物的冲动。

Predators may then mistake them for something inedible, such as a leaf bud.

掠食者可能会误认螳螂是不能吃的东西，例如一片叶芽。

Seeds from the inedible fruit that the trees produce can spread easily.

树结出的不可食用的果实种子很容易传播。

By AD 1000, maize had spread north and south, virtually through the whole length of the Americas; which is perhaps surprising-because, in its earliest form, not only did maize have little taste, it was practically inedible.

大概公元前1000左右，玉米已经由南到北，几乎遍布了整个美洲大陆了。可能会让令人惊奇，因为其实最早期的玉米品种，不单单食之无味，而且根就几乎不能食用的。

The target is a tiny, inedible sandwich with a sample of whatever substance the researchers are interested in in the middle.

目标是一个微小的、不可食用的三明治，中间夹着研究人员感兴趣的任何物质。

Making holes in the bags of food, and mucking and peeing in the food, making it inedible for the animals.

在粮食袋子上嗑洞、在粮食里大小便，弄得动物们都不吃粮食了。

Sometimes this also presents as the consumption of inedible substances like soil and chalk, a condition known as pica.

有时也表现为食用非食用物，比如吃土和吃粉笔，种情况被称为异食癖。

So on paper, I'd say pass, but the fact that's nearly inedible, it's gotta be a fail.

名义上我会说不及格，但事实上几乎不能吃，肯定是失败的。

You've seen how invisible bacteria can make food inedible, but seemingly clean water can be dangerous too.

你已经了解到看不见的细菌是如何使食物变得无法食用，表面上干净的水也可能是危险的。

We have not split the protein accordingly, that is almost inedible, and food waste.

我们没有相应地分解蛋白质，几乎就没办法吃，也是食物浪费。

What you're left with is something that's almost inedible.

剩下的东西几乎不能吃。

While the inner leaves are delicacy, the outer leaves are completely inedible.

虽然内层叶子是美味佳肴，外层叶子却完全不能食用。