High food prices do help poor farmers, but they also hurt the more numerous category of people (poor city-dwellers as well as landless rural folk) who must buy food to survive.

• 高粮价确实帮助了贫穷的农民，但这也伤害了那些靠购买食物维持生存的更为广大的民众（穷困的城市居民以及没有土地的边民）。