他解释道，肥胖症是个“出发点”问题，也就是说，在不缩小问题范围情况下，对肥胖定义的丝毫的改变都会极大影响肥胖人口的数量统计。

In other words, while not minimizing the scope of the problem, Friedman notes that any small change in its definition can have profound consequences in the number of people who are considered obese.

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日本和美国的汽车制造商已经不得不缩减生产量了。

Carmakers in Japan and America have had to scale back production.

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其中的一大半在今年即将用罄，这就意味着不得不缩减2011年的预算。

More than half is to be spent this year, meaning that the budget will have to be cut in 2011.

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And I want you to get used to this, that colon is important, it identifies the start, and then the set of indented things identify all the things at the same level, and when we reset back to the previous level, that's when we go back to where we were.

我希望大家熟悉这个结构，冒号很重要，它定义了开始的地方，然后缩进号代表着,同样一层的对象，当我们到了，不缩进的地方的时候，也就到了以前的状态。

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