And there are metal counting devices used for keeping financial records.

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That's right. That's an example, as we talked about in the last class, of the act of keeping records influencing the accuracy of the records, because you're prone to do things differently then what your typical eating might be because you're keeping the records.

对,如我们上节课所谈到的,这有个持续记录会影响记录准确性的例子,由于你不断进行记录,你更可能会吃与不同于平时的东西

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The price of paper fell and created opportunity for record-keeping, which was very important because that's what finance is built-- you need financial records.

纸价下跌,从而使得纸质记录成为了可能，这点至关重要,因为这是金融立身之本-,人们需要财务记录。

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Now when I asked you to start keeping the dietary records, I asked you not necessarily to change your food intake because we wanted you to have an accurate record of what you typically ate.

当我让你自己保留饮食记录,我告诉你没有必要改自己的食物摄入记录,因为我们想获得准确数据,关于你一般吃什么

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Of course that depends on the accuracy of the self- reports that people are making on their own, and as you'll see in just a minute, there are errors in that and some of you may have experienced some of that yourself in keeping the dietary records.

当然这还取决于每个人自己完成的,个体调查的准确性,正如你马上会看到的,这其中有误差,而你们也可能经历过一些,你自己保存膳食记录时的误差

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