Before I do that though, let me try and give you an analogy to keep this in mind of why we want to basically build these abstractions and what we need in order to have them work together.

在我们看例子之前请让我打个比方,以便你们能记住我们,为什么要建立这些抽象,以及要使它们协调工作,我们需要做些什么。

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It's quite striking and it helps you to reflect on what makes us behave the way we do.

这是很震撼的,促使你反思,是什么使我们冷漠地无动于衷

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In other words, how is it that we feel the need to make things up?

换句话说，究竟是什么使我们想编故事？

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What makes it believable as an account of, again, ? the condition we are naturally in?

是什么使它变得让我们相信，我们是自然而然身处于这种状态之中？

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And also, as I'll discuss in a minute, a lot of people don't recognize what a portion is, and because the food industry has been very successful at recalibrating us to think about what's acceptable to eat in one sitting at one time, and because of that our notions of portions have been thrown way off.

同时,马上我要讲到,很多人不知道摄入量是什么,因为食品业,成功的重塑了我们,就坐用餐时关于什么东西是可食用的看法,而这使我们对摄入量这个概念,有了不同看法

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What is it that makes us uniquely human?

什么使我们人类不同于其他生物的呢？

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