He gave us a plate of meat and potatoes.

他给我们一盘马铃薯烧肉。

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Waiters come around and literally chomp off large slabs of protein onto your plate until you’ve eaten so much meat, the meal sends you into a long hibernation.

服务业走来走去并且大块地往你盘里切蛋白质直到你吃了很多肉，这足以让你冬眠很长一段时间了。

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When he tried to refuse, his first meal of the day, a plate of cold, dry meat and stale bread, was taken away from him.

当父亲想拒绝的时候，他那天的第一次伙食，一份又冷又干的肉和不新鲜的面包，就被从手中夺走了。

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Creating a vegetarian restaurant was too much of a drastic change, so creating a concept of reducing the amount of meat and fish on a plate was what he saw as a compromise.

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Last Wednesday night, at a reception for Senator John McCain, Senator Phil Gramm, a scathing Clinton critic, eating an overflowing plate of red meat, looked as if he might serve as the new nemesis.

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Every time you raise the threshold for eating the rich, you get a much, much smaller serving of meat on the plate but the deficit stays the same.

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